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  • Chores are Becoming Tourist Attractions

    Chores are Becoming Tourist Attractions0

    In the title of an article in the The Atlantic yesterday Joe Pinsker asked, “What Do Professional Apple Farmers Think of People Who Pick Apples for Fun?” He found one grumpy farmer in Washington state who had no idea, said “it must be an East Coast or urban thing,” and called the activity “hilarious and

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  • Choreless Generation Doesn’t Want Summer Jobs

    Choreless Generation Doesn’t Want Summer Jobs0

    I got my first summer job around age 11 when my elderly neighbor asked me to weed her garden. As I advanced through middle and high school, that once a month money-making enterprise expanded into bigger and better paying jobs – and more dealings with the general public. While such an experience may seem like

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  • Choosing to Spend Vacation… Behind Bars

    Choosing to Spend Vacation… Behind Bars0

    South Korea has a unique kind of prison problem. Unlike their neighbors to the north, they don’t have camps full of starving political dissenters. And they don’t have the same epidemic levels of mass incarceration found in America. The problem in South Korea is that people go to prison voluntarily as a way of escaping

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  • Choosing the Best Education at Risk of Arrest

    Choosing the Best Education at Risk of Arrest0

    If you’re like most parents, you want the best for your children, especially when it comes to education. But to what lengths would you go to achieve that best? Would you be willing to risk arrest by the government in order to choose the best education for your child? That’s the situation the Romeike family

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  • Choosing Hope Over Despair

    Choosing Hope Over Despair0

    Every once in a while, I speak by phone with the editors of some of the publications I write for. In my most recent conversations with two of them, they conveyed the same basic message. They reminded me they want articles with a positive vision of the future. Realistic, but without the doom and gloom

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  • Choosing Excellence Over Equitable Mediocrity

    Choosing Excellence Over Equitable Mediocrity2

    If you, like me, were a student who strove to get work in on time and took advantage of extra credit or other academic perks when offered, then you can be glad you’re past school age—especially if you live in Portland, Ore. That’s because schools in that district are beginning to implement “equitable grading practices.” Just

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