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The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe. David Remnick

War Cold Cold War Wildly Entire Consumed Globe Expensive

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving. David Remnick

Nature Cold Wet Unforgiving Hard

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence. David Remnick

Live Okay Kind Magazines Had New Most Existence Very Die Yorker Just Different New Yorker Different Kind Moments Peak

Reform is not a period of retreat. David Remnick

Retreat Period Reform

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords. David Remnick

Capitalism Russia More Than Far Spawned Al Henry

I actually have great hopes for the future. David Remnick

Future Great Hopes Actually

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. David Remnick

Happy Language Tough Wish Practice Enough Everything Complex Would Constant Pretty Russian Write Sooner Most Well Read Without Understand Am Than Letter Things Speech

I'm not the slowest writer that you know. David Remnick

You Writer Know

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply. David Remnick

Good Better Heroes Faster Say Slightly Could Write He Wrote Principle Than May Anyone Used Who Apply

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. David Remnick

Time Everyone States Prolonged Crisis Has-Been Fraught Seemingly My Time Almost Almost Everyone Between Involves Editor Been Iraq Tragic Histories Afghanistan Prehistory United United States

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate. David Remnick

Think Dealing Very Senate Different Electorate

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. David Remnick

Party Tea Some Absence Mainstream Republican Republican Party Means Tea Party Extent

Though sporting a hideous mustache is in no way comparable to the physical pain and mental suffering men with these diseases endure, Movember still forces participants to challenge their manhood on a daily basis. Growing a moustache for men's cancer isn't as feel-good an activity as running a marathon for a cure. David Sax

Daily Suffering Cancer Challenge Men Pain Way Though Hideous Mustache Running Physical Mental Physical Pain Participants Forces Still Cure Diseases Moustache Endure Manhood Comparable Growing Marathon Activity Daily Basis Basis

Food trends have been around as long as people have had the ability to choose between different things to eat, but the modern, interconnected media has made food trends a viral phenomenon. Once upon a time, it was just a few newspapers and a few select gourmet magazines that were writing about food. Today, it's every single publication. David Sax

Today Time Food People Writing Made Long Single Few Every Viral Once Trends Ability Eat Magazines About Select Had Between Around Gourmet Were Been Modern Just Different Interconnected Newspapers Choose Different Things Media Publication Things Phenomenon

Think of the sushi trend that started in the '80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainment system in your living room as it was about the availability of good-quality raw fish. The Japanese food trend rose as the world of Japanese business and culture was becoming a bigger part of American life. David Sax

Life Food Entertainment Business Culture World Trend Rose Living Think Nintendo System About Part Raw Becoming Fish American Sushi Bigger Availability American Life Japanese Room Much Your Living Room Started

What makes a good deli is a place that, one, is generally family-owned or owned by individuals that care. Delis that are owned by large corporations tend not to have that same soul. And two, delis that make as much of their food from scratch as possible. David Sax

Detroit is a great deli city. If only GM could learn from what the delis in Detroit are doing! The best rye bread anywhere - double-baked, crispy, warm rye that they serve their sandwiches with - and great corned beef. It's a passionate deli town. David Sax

Best Great City Deli Only Could Detroit Town Learn Doing Passionate Beef Bread Anywhere Warm Sandwiches Serve

Anytime someone orders a pastrami sandwich on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. David Sax

Somewhere White Someone Dies Bread Orders Anytime Sandwich Jew

Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care. David Sax

At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he'd co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries. David Sax

In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries. David Sax

Sets Released More Magnetic Powerful Countries Since Most Toy Became Cube Selling Than Curiously Popular Novelty Marbles Million Units

In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space. David Sax

Business Training Money School Space College Clown Ran Out Bronx Charging He Soon Opened Courses Waiter Same Now Milton

Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3.6 percent from 2010. Restaurant employment grew 1.9 percent in 2011, with some 230,000 jobs added, the strongest gain in five years. David Sax

Added Jobs High Restaurant Record Some Percent Strongest Reached Employment Industry Years Sales Up Five Grew Estimated Gain Billion

Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves. David Sax

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