“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his 1936 essay, “The Crack-Up.” Given that test, I’m afraid I would flunk hands-down. Here are some contradictory
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“Ma’am, I need you to come pick up your daughter,” I say into the phone. “She has been suspended for continual and willful defiance.” “What did she do?” comes the reply. “Yesterday, she cussed out our dean when he asked her to go to class,” I answer, glossing past the many times she had skipped
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As some readers may know, I’m an old guy, born during the middle of the Korean War. Which makes me a time machine. Listen to me, and I can whisk you back to the late 1960s, when in high school we took biology and health classes. In biology we probably
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A friend of mine recently bemoaned the fact that people only ever tell her how difficult parenting is. Since she is expecting her first child, such “friendly advice” isn’t the most encouraging thing to hear. Unfortunately, discouraging words about raising children aren’t all that out of the ordinary, a fact writer Lucy Huber addresses in
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On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19. “We’re in a stronger place today as a nation with more tools to protect ourselves in our communities from COVID-19, like vaccination, boosters, broader access to testing, availability of high quality masks, accessibility to new
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Medical journals and textbooks are clear that the only way to accurately determine the life-or-death impacts of medical treatments is by measuring “all-cause mortality” in “randomized controlled trials.” Clinical lingo aside, this is simply the number of deaths in studies where people are randomly assigned to receive or not receive a certain treatment. Though widely
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