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For vacationers, this town strategically located on Lake Superior’s northwest shore is a springboard to the national parks of Ontario’s interior.
Obviously taking her lead from Slate --see "Culturebox," "I Want My Electronic Baby Sitter!"--a NYT op-ed writer uses the recent anti-TV report by the American Academy of Pediatrics as a springboard to sing her praises to that ultimate babysitter--the one with the blue glow: "I fondly imagined my kids glazed-eyed, slack-jawed--and quiet.
It's easy to mistake it for that, and her critics generally do, making her a springboard for an attack on feminism in general.
On Sunday, the NYT used the Bill-Gates-pie-in-the-face incident as a springboard for a "Week in Review" thumbsucker about the history of food as a weapon.
Extrapolating on the theories of the Renaissance designer, Geofroy Tory, as expounded in his Champ Fleury (1529), Firmage takes Tory's sketches as the springboard for his analysis of the letter-shapes and the sometimes highly stylized forms they assume throughout history, from their inchoate inception in the Near East down to present-day, computer-generated typefaces.