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  • Streets With Nooks and Crannies Are Beloved and Endangered

    Streets With Nooks and Crannies Are Beloved and Endangered0

    A building may appeal for its formal perfection, its harmony of proportion and the grammatical discipline with which it matches part to part. But it may appeal despite lacking those things, by offering enticing glimpses of the life within, intriguing apertures, invitations to enter, to explore, to imagine.  The much-loved villages of Provence and the

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  • Stopping for Cake is Not a Crime

    Stopping for Cake is Not a Crime2

    It was, Nzinga Terrell-Brown hoped, the beginning of her dream of becoming a teacher. In 2018, when she got a job as a teacher’s aide, her future looked bright. But a couple months in, she was fired—and didn’t know why. She got another teacher’s aide job but was abruptly fired again. What was going on?

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  • Stop Worrying About Not Getting Enough Exercise and Being too Stressed – You May Live Longer

    Stop Worrying About Not Getting Enough Exercise and Being too Stressed – You May Live Longer0

    It’s January, so it’s likely that you have set yourself goals to be more physically active and less stressed in 2018. Paradoxically, better goals would be to stop worrying about how much exercise you’re getting and to stop worrying about being too stressed. A recent study of over 60,000 US adults examined the link between

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  • Stop With the Politics: A New Approach to the Culture Wars

    Stop With the Politics: A New Approach to the Culture Wars0

    G.K. Chesterton once wrote “‘My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’” Agreed. Both a country in the wrong and a mother on the bottle need some help and correction. But hidden beneath Chesterton’s quip is

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  • Stop the Hysteria on COVID-19 Learning Loss

    Stop the Hysteria on COVID-19 Learning Loss0

    More than one billion students around the world are currently missing school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several US states have already canceled school for the remainder of the academic year, turning to online learning when possible, and other states are likely to extend their school closures soon. Some educationists panic about learning loss while

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  • Stop the Grandstanding in Women’s Soccer

    Stop the Grandstanding in Women’s Soccer9

    Upon learning that the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) was knocked out of the Women’s World Cup after a 5-4 loss to Sweden, I was not very sympathetic toward the team. It was particularly fitting that Megan Rapinoe, the team’s sour-faced forward and chief political activist, missed an important goal kick near the end of

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