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All quiet on the warring front
At last, peace and quiet (or at least quiet): The good/bad news about cyberwarfare
Thanks to drones, robots and toxic chemicals, modern warfare is quieter and cheaper than ever before. That means it's even more dangerous.
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Brits and Americans: How we really differ
How do you raise your kids? (And other British-American conflicts)
Britain and the U.S. are two nations separated by a common language, you've heard it said. But if you ask a native-born Brit married to a Jewish American— like me— the gulf far transcends mere linguistics.
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The Chosen People's answer to Paula Deen
Who you calling tasteless? Or: If Paula Deen got away with it, why can't I?
Welcome to “The Politically Correct Over-age Jewish Guy's Kitchen,” the cooking show that shows you respect. Unlike a certain celebrity chef from Georgia who shall remain nameless.
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Edward Snowden: Fugitive without a country
Telling the truth, and other ‘crimes' of Edward Snowden
Uncle Sam pursues a single citizen around the globe for revealing a vast, secret spying operation that targets ordinary Americans. Meanwhile, the nation's security chief gets a free pass for lying under oath about the program. Shouldn't Americans be inviting Edward Snowden to tell us— not a foreign power— what he knows?
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Back to the future in Germany
A fresh start in Germany
In Weimar, Germany, my six-year-old son Danny made his dramatic debut in a remarkable kindergarten named for a remarkable man whose memory, let us hope, will outlast Germany's 20th-Century tragedies.
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Education: The key question
The missing curriculum: How to think
Today the question is not whether we need education, but what kind. The idea that an education should encourage the pursuit of learning and knowledge as an end in itself seems to be going by the board.
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Antonin Scalia, civil libertarian?
Scalia switches sides
When Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's reactionary bullhorn, comes out for civil liberties, you know times must be tough. Give the Devil his due, though: Even Scalia drew the line at the idea of the government invading his mouth.
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The GPS Lady as parental surrogate
Whom to believe: the GPS lady or my own eyes?
Think you're a rational adult? Try disagreeing with your GPS en route to a strange airport. It's too much like talking back to your parents.
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My father's war stories
What did you do in the war, daddy?
My father rarely talked about his experieces as a soldier in World War II. He left it to me to discover that he was in the midst of the worst European fighting, fearing for his life almost every day for 11 consecutive months.
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The new "psychiatric Bible'
Psychiatrist, heal thyself
You've heard it said— jokingly or not— that most psychiatrists go into the field in order to work out issues of their own. A slog through the profession's new de facto Bible pages suggests that the joke is no joke.
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