Buried deep within the paper's supplementary material (pdf, pg 24 onwards) are some fascinating tables which show the costs to date of trying to protect individual endangered species, particularly bird species.
The Tax Policy Center, a research group run by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, has done the most detailed analysis of the Obama and McCain tax plans, and it has published a series of fascinating tables.
Based on Social Security's handy wage data in "Wage Statistics" -- it is a fascinating table -- did you know out of the 165 million wage earners only 205 earn over $50 million a year and report an average earnings of exactly $97,338,760.37?
Most days, I'm privy to fascinating conversation around the table about the latest theater, opera, dance, etc.
Item 'this place has fascinating qualities' correlates (See Table 3) with 'Being here helps me to focus on getting things done' (r = 0.724, p < 0.05), 'Coming here helps me to get relief from unwanted demands on my attention' (r = 0.731, p < 0.05) and 'This place has fascinating qualities' (r = 0.669, p < 0.05).
Michelle Obama's vegetable garden, the vexing business of juggling work and children, and even the merits of high street over designer stores – all were topics discussed with fervent interest among the four tables as this fascinating mixture of stateswomen and celebrities whiled away their evening, the Mail says.
It's fascinating away from the lunch table.
Although she could not hope to provide a complete biography in the interstices, she supplies fascinating illustrations, a helpful chronological table and other tools.
Included are a zither and a gaming table, but most fascinating are objects notable for their delicacy: diaphanous hats made of black horsehair, a hatbox that looks like a Tiffany lamp, and a white cloth for wrapping clothes.
"I used to go and stay in Paris with him, and I would sleep in his dressing room, and he would treat one like a complete adult — there would be these fascinating conversations around the dinner table about books, politics, art, whatever," she said.
Such techniques may explain how in Sorry! he's able so confidently to cover the history of courtesy, civility, etiquette, privacy, hat-tipping, kissing, hypocrisy, names, name-calling, table manners, the fascinating usage and abusage of the word "sprezzatura", and the rituals of bereavement.
