I have no attachment to papers, or crappy sweatshirts or old teddy bears or notes from my high school boyfriend except...maybe I do.
For now, however, the change in ownership is likely to be most significant to expatriates, travelers and policy makers who have developed an attachment to the paper's distinctive mix of articles.
Richard Readers have a deep attachment to the paper, and understandably so – it's news at a different pace to so much of modern life, and as such, it can provide a bit of respite from it.
"There is much more emotional attachment to the paper book than there is to the CD or the DVD," said Mike Shatzkin, founder and chief executive of the Idea Logical Company, which advises book publishers on digital change.
Reporters and editors, most of whom rarely saw their publisher in the newsroom, were taken aback but impressed with what that said about Ms. Weymouth's attachment to the paper.
In a similar situation, the Globe has, so far, had two individuals with a deep attachment to the paper look at the allegations.
Its biggest newspapers, The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Jose Mercury News, have suffered through some of the sharpest downsizing in the industry, and a very high percentage of the region's residents moved from elsewhere, which usually means less attachment to the local paper.
And this is portentous news for visual artists, whose abiding attachment to ink-on-paper journalism is on vivid display in "Burying the Lede," a show on view through Oct. 27 at Momenta Art in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
The results showed that bacterial attachment to the carbon papers caused a significant decrease in the contact angle, shifting the surface property from highly hydrophobic to slightly hydrophobic or even hydrophilic.
