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Grammar Matters -- maybe diagramming sentences wasn't such a waste of time.
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Hammock Reading -- when it's too hot to do anything else, you can always read an unputdownable book.
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Just Desserts -- the ads tell us we deserve everything. because we're worth it. Just what do we deserve, and why?
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Rock of Ages -- on VH-1's top 100 rock performers of all time.
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The Face that Launched a Thousand Cartoons -- making fun of people's appearance is the life blood of editorial cartoons.
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Strange Bedfellows -- the Republican Party is on a collision course with itself.
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A Reaction-ary -- pay attention to your reactions--they'll tell you who you are.
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Borders Skirmish Revisited -- should we try to make libraries more like the big chain bookstores? My readers speak.
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The Wrong Words -- words are dangerous; don't censor them--answer them.
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Never Jam Tomorrow -- short-term thinking is mucking up our life and our politics.
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Data Connector -- data is meaningless until acted on by human intelligence.
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The Eight Commandments -- if we were starting a religion from scratch, what would our commandments be?
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The Meaning of Never Again -- of Kosovo and genocide and monsters.
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The Price of Free Gifts -- you can get almost anything you want free on the net, and all you pay for it is your identity.
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Workin' at the Porn-Shop Blues -- some truly depressing things people do to make a living.
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Is It Live or Is It Memorex? -- what our minds record is not the same as what our cameras record
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Pushing Our Barns -- ruminations about the stuff we fill our lives with.
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What You Do with Falling Apples -- the differences between machine intelligence and human intelligence
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Chocolate Raspberry Amaretto Truffle -- we are all "32 flavors and then some," but the world keeps wanting us all to be vanilla.
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The Customer Is Sometimes Wrong -- what happens when we adjust our lives around the assumption that everything is fast, cheap, and available round the clock?
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'Tis the Season To Buy Fruitcake -- your certain clue to what season and holiday is upon us.
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The Look of Life -- one of endangered species worth saving is surely the general interest magazine
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Christmas Card
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1998: My Year in Books
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On Orbiting Things -- is it harder now for us to have Jeffersonian breadth of interests and knowledge?
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Sense and Sensibility -- on the strengths and limitations of common sense.
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Lighting Out for the Territory -- on men who walk out on their lives.
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A Game of Pinball -- life doesn't proceed in our nice neat planned lines because we keep getting bumped off course.
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How I Became a Fairy Godmother -- what happens when you put a book page up on the net.
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Crossing the Wide Semantic -- who would have thought that the Lewinsky story is fundamentally about semantics?
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It HAS Happened Here -- overruling an election with money, lawyers, and obedient journalists
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Guessing Game -- how much of what we do at an information desk is handing out answers, and how much is handing out better questions?
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Within the Sound of Silence -- we are not at home with silence.
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Limited Success -- without formal rules and limits, can poetry or art exist?
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Vampires -- we have become emotional voyeurs, preying on the real life emotions of celebrities and victims.
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Real Tinsel -- the difference between the Gilded Age and in our willingness to help others climb the ladder.
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Pun Pals -- time to lighten up with another e-mail game made entirely of puns.
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Time Machine -- if you could go back in time, what place and time would you choose?
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Connecting the Dots -- how are professors to pass on their love of learning to a resistant consumer generation?
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The Real News of the Century -- sometimes the biggest news is not an event but a sea change.
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Meddling with Wizards -- why is it that in so many books about fighting ultimate evil, we send children to do battle?
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We're All with Stupid -- on putting our minds on autopilot, and using our manual overrides.
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Design for Living -- we have abandoned our town squares and designed ourselves into isolation.
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Thoughts While Weeding --neither nature nor power much care what life forms triumph; they both need constant supervision.
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They've All Come To Look for America -- what books would you give new immigrants to tell them what they need to know about America?
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The Finger-Pointing Circle -- the media and the gunmakers need to take responsibility for their decisions, too.
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