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Population growth: Quality trumps quantity
A simple increase in the number of brains in the world doesn’t do you any good if the owners of those brains are all working in the rice fields growing rice. One educated brain is worth several dozen illiterate subsistence farmers.
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Paul Walker’s ironic demise
Give me the simple death
Paul Walker, the star of movies about fiery car crashes, just died in a fiery car crash. Death, always, sucks. But an ironic death? Even worse.
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Fear of spiders, real and projected
The cobwebs of your mind
The real danger posed by the tarantula on my floor lay not with the spider or even with my husband. It lay in my persistent fear of the social and financial consequences of divorce. In the same way, all of us project our fears onto others so that we see threats that don’t exist.
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Scotland flirts with independence
Calling Rob Roy: It’s time for your breath test
Scotland, the rugged land that gave the world capitalism and more inventions than you can shake a stick at, is now contemplating rugged independence, the better to achieve a welfare state.
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An entrepreneur solves Obamacare
Once and for all: Health care made easy
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My schoolmate, Shaun Cassidy
Ready for my 15 minutes, Mr. DeMille
When I knew Shaun Cassidy in 1974, he was kind of cute and kind of vapid. But at 16, who wasn't?
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Has Obamacare destroyed Obama?
Obama’s bridge too far
The continuing calamity of the Obamacare rollout tells Americans a great deal—about the intractability of our social problems, the gridlock of our political system and above all the character of Barack Obama himself.
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Giving thanks: Right woman, right time, right place
The other woman who changed my life
She only crossed my path for a moment years ago. But what a difference that moment made to me.
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My dinner with Nixon
Foiled by Tricky Dick
As president, Richard Nixon may or may not have messed up the country. But I can attest with certainty that he messed up my romance.
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Is privacy a thing of the past?
Orwell was right after all
Thanks to America’s national security complex as well as Americans’ own giddy eagerness to confess our deepest darkest secrets on YouTube and Facebook, privacy is becoming both a lost right and a lost art. But can freedom survive without it?
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