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  • 12-Year-Old Boy’s Ice Cream Stand Gets Shut Down, But His Entrepreneurial Spirit Persists

    12-Year-Old Boy’s Ice Cream Stand Gets Shut Down, But His Entrepreneurial Spirit Persists0

    Danny Doherty wanted to spend his summer vacation productively. For the past few summers, the now-twelve-year-old boy from the Boston suburb of Norwood, Massachusetts, had been asking to have a summer job to earn his own money. Youth employment regulations can make it difficult for young people to gain work experience even if they want to, so

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  • 12 Times Calvin and Hobbes Taught Us about Philosophy & Religion

    12 Times Calvin and Hobbes Taught Us about Philosophy & Religion0

    As you may know, Calvin & Hobbes contains religious and philosophical significance in its very title. In a nod to his political science classes in college, creator Bill Watterson named Calvin after John Calvin, the 16th-century theologian and reformer, and Hobbes after the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Here are 12 times that philosophy and religion spilled

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  • 12 Things Parents of Mentally Strong Children Don’t Do

    12 Things Parents of Mentally Strong Children Don’t Do0

    My five-year-old was a blubbering, hot mess. He tackled kindergarten fine nine months before, but the first day of summer camp was too much for him. “I don’t want to go. I don’t want to go,” he moaned, sobbing fat crocodile tears. Most parents have been in situations like this. It’s one of the toughest

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  • 12 Signs You Have Above Average Intelligence, According to Science

    12 Signs You Have Above Average Intelligence, According to Science0

    Business Insider has an interesting graphic showing eight things smart people seem to have in common. You have a cat You’re the oldest child You took music lessons You don’t smoke You’re thin You’ve used recreational drugs You’re left-handed Eight is not quite enough for my taste, so let’s look at a few more indicators of intelligence:

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  • 12 Gore Vidal Quotes to Prepare You for Election Season

    12 Gore Vidal Quotes to Prepare You for Election Season0

    From the prolific writer (1925-2012) and perceptive critic of American politics:   1. “By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.”    2. “Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

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  • 11-Year-Old Girl Eviscerates Hollywood

    11-Year-Old Girl Eviscerates Hollywood0

    Today the film Me Before You, based on a 2012 novel of the same title, opens in theaters throughout the U.S. and Britain. It centers on a talented man, Will Traynor, whom a motorcycle accident made quadriplegic; he no longer finds life worth living and commits suicide calmly, with a bit of help, after much

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