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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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  • Choosing Children—Over More Than Just Guns

    Choosing Children—Over More Than Just Guns2

    The spate of recent mass shootings is once again turning us all into experts who wax eloquent on social media. “We can’t have this anymore,” many shout. “It’s time to do something!” “Doing something,” of course, often doubles as code for gun control. But such gun control is right and good, individuals argue, because it

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  • Choosing Children Over Self-Centered Ambitions

    Choosing Children Over Self-Centered Ambitions0

    There are plenty of double-take headlines out there, and one of them showed up on my desk the other day courtesy of The Daily Beast. “Meet the People Who Won’t Have Sex Until They’re Sterilized,” the headline ran. Nonchalantly, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, the article laid out the

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