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  • Why Tom Petty’s Music Will Last

    Why Tom Petty’s Music Will Last0

    We don’t have royalty in America. All we have is celebrities. And at the top of the celebrity hierarchy is the rock star. So lofty a station do rock stars occupy in the celebrity firmament, that movie stars, presidents, and even real royalty must pay them obeisance. And of course we all know how the

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  • Why Today’s Students Can’t Pass This 1922 College Entrance Exam

    Why Today’s Students Can’t Pass This 1922 College Entrance Exam2

    For generations, each autumn has bestowed the unofficial arrival of adulthood on young people as they head off to college for the first time. But while the entrance into the Ivy Halls has occurred for years, one part of that ritual seems to have disappeared, namely, the entrance examination. Oh sure, we have SATs and

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  • Why Today’s Kids Are Over-Celebrated

    Why Today’s Kids Are Over-Celebrated0

    This year, I’m as happy as my children are to have passed the last day of school and welcomed summer. I’m not alone: Even though summer brings new challenges, like finding childcare and paying for camps and extracurricular activities, most parents I talk to are as relieved as I am to put the rigors of

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  • Why Today’s Kids Need More Time to Goof Off

    Why Today’s Kids Need More Time to Goof Off0

    Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is known world over for its deep lessons on racism and equality. In focusing on these lessons however, it’s easy to breeze by the simple, lighthearted picture with which the book opens, namely, that of children goofing off and having a good time in the summer. That lesson

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  • Why Time Speeds Up as We Get Older (And What We Can Do About It)

    Why Time Speeds Up as We Get Older (And What We Can Do About It)0

    Time seems to go faster as we age. When we were children, the school year and then the summer seemed to stretch forever. As adults, we wonder where the time went. Duke University engineering professor Adrian Bejan believes he can explain this universal phenomenon. Bejan found as we age our ability to process mental images

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  • Why Thoughts and Prayers are Better than Righteous Anger

    Why Thoughts and Prayers are Better than Righteous Anger0

    It is fashionable to “prayer shame” those who offer “thoughts and prayers” as a response to violence. Public response to the gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is an example. If you did not deliver an angry diatribe against gun ownership, your failure to fall in line with the politically correct position is

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