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Three Things Studying Foreign Languages Taught Me About English0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
“Whoever does not know a foreign language knows nothing of his own.” After studying Latin and German, I understand exactly what this quote from Goethe means. Growing up as a native English speaker, I had little idea of how the language worked. Since I began studying foreign languages, I have learned to appreciate my mother
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Lyme, Not Lime: How to Help Those Wrestling With the Bizarre Disease0
- Science
- July 25, 2019
“L-Y-M-E” not “L-I-M-E” an exasperated college friend explained to a group of us in his dorm room. “It’s carried by ticks, and apparently a tick bite I had years ago transmitted it to me.” If you’re like myself or anyone else in the room that day, then you probably would’ve been just as confused as
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Is College Really Getting Easier?1
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
Have you ever seen those videos of kids learning they made it into the college of their dreams? A lot of ecstatic jumping and hollering is involved, which brings a smile to even the grumpiest of faces. Nevertheless, I can’t help but feel a twinge of unease for these students. Will they waste four years
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Fighting for the Right to Repair Our Stuff0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
It’s hard to overemphasize how new repair restrictions are historically. For most of human history, tools were both produced and maintained locally. Blacksmiths, for instance, furnished items but also maintained them. Moreover, fashions changed slowly, and people made things to be durable, often repairing and preserving them for a lifetime and even longer. As the
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China’s Recycling Ban: Surprisingly Helpful for the Environment0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
Off the coast of California floats a Texas-sized island made out of garbage. It’s comprised almost entirely of humanity’s plastic waste. Where did this garbage mass in the middle of the Pacific Ocean came from? Plastic dumping. Plastic dumping is the practice of simply throwing away waste into rivers or lakes which eventually lead out into the
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Who Is Boris Johnson?0
- International
- July 24, 2019
Boris Johnson, a champion of free trade and lower taxes, will serve as the next prime minister of the UK beginning on Wednesday, July 24. Officials announced on Tuesday that Johnson won 66.4 percent of the Conservative Party’s popular vote, besting rival Jeremy Hunt 92,153 votes to 46,656. In his victory speech, Johnson thanked his opponent, Jeremy Hunt,
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The Chinese Communist Party and Their Brave New World0
- Culture
- July 24, 2019
“Graham Allison (China expert and Harvard professor) knows of a Shanghai deputy mayor who says he looks forward to the day when every upper-middle class family in Shanghai has an American house-boy.” – Aaron Sarin Every once in a great while an online article will reach out from the screen of my laptop, grab me
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Squashing Free Speech With High Heels0
- Culture
- July 24, 2019
Political correctness has now conquered beauty pageants. On July 18th, Kathy Zhu was suddenly stripped of her Miss Michigan crown. Subsequently, she was disqualified from competing in Las Vegas for the Miss World America Organization (MWA) competition. Why? For “offensive” Tweets that date back to over a year ago. Based on those tweets, MWA’s National
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Home Equity Theft: How a Man’s Home Was Seized Over $8.41 in Unpaid Taxes0
- Economics
- July 24, 2019
For three years, the pair scrimped and saved in order to fix up the four-unit property. On the weekends, Ramouldo would spend his days off making the 11-hour drive from New Jersey to Michigan to work on the house, making the much-needed repairs himself. In addition to the small complex, the family had purchased a
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