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  • A (Manageable) Summer Reading List for the Beach

    A (Manageable) Summer Reading List for the Beach0

    At the beginning of summer, we often are treated to a spate of “Summer Reading” lists that we are supposed to read “at the beach.” The trouble is, the lists are either so overstuffed with long books or are just so long that any attempt to read them at the beach will result in sun

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  • Twitter CEO Apologizes for Eating Chick-Fil-A Sandwich

    Twitter CEO Apologizes for Eating Chick-Fil-A Sandwich0

    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday expressed regret over eating at Chick-fil-A because of the chicken company’s CEO’s personal views on gay marriage. Dorsey tweeted a screenshot from his phone that showed a purchase he had made at Chick-fil-A using a mobile application. After a liberal backlash, however, Dorsey apologized for eating at the popular

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  • Why America’s Self-Help Industry Is Booming

    Why America’s Self-Help Industry Is Booming0

    Many people may not know that in 2017 Patriots quarterback Tom Brady rolled out a cookbook. For just $200, readers could get a “living document” dishing all the secrets of the star quarterback’s heavily (and strangely) regimented diet. The “TB12-alligned nutrition plan” had a total of 89 recipes. The notion that people would pay $200

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  • Is Suicide Contagious?

    Is Suicide Contagious?0

    In 1983, The New York Times ran a story titled “MICRONESIA’S MALE SUICIDE RATE DEFIES SOLUTION.” The story opened with this nut graph: In the islands of Micronesia, young men are killing themselves at one of the highest rates in the world, researchers say, and no one knows what to do about it. Suicides among

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  • Guns Haven’t Changed in America. People Have.

    Guns Haven’t Changed in America. People Have.0

    Having enjoyed my 82nd birthday, I am part of a group of about 50 million Americans who are 65 years of age or older. Those who are 90 or older were in school during the 1930s. My age cohort was in school during the 1940s. Baby boomers approaching their 70s were in school during the

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  • Why California’s Drinking Water Tax Could Be the Last Straw for Californians

    Why California’s Drinking Water Tax Could Be the Last Straw for Californians0

    California governor Jerry Brown wants to impose the state’s first-ever tax on drinking water, tacked onto monthly bills, and accompanied by “fees” on fertilizer and dairy farmers. For embattled Californians, this new tax will come as no surprise.  Forty years ago in 1978, property taxes were on the rise and the People’s Initiative to Limit

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