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  • Life and Death in the Web

    Life and Death in the Web0

    Web derives from an Old English word meaning “that which is woven,” referring to fabrics. By 1300, it also meant “a plexus of threads made by spider.” Today, of course, the most common usage refers to the intricate digital web connecting the globe. Every second of every day, that web serves up words and images, links friends

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  • An Old Guy Takes Some Lessons From ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’

    An Old Guy Takes Some Lessons From ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’0

    Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the

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