It's a fair enough point. When you come out to celebrate each other for being famous and beautiful, why not toss a few crumbs to the ...

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Your parents' (or maybe grandparents') tax dollars at work:In one passage, Smith describes how Gen. Leslie Groves, commander of the...

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It's going around, and we've got it.  We'll try to rally a bit later and post some updates, especially regarding our Skylight pa...

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Doris Lessing formally received her Nobel prize in a ceremony in London on Wednesday night, since she was too frail to fly to Stockholm last year for the presentation. My love and...

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Luca Bastardo knows only life on the streets of Florence when he is taken by the cruel Bernardo Silvano to become a slave in h...

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A couple of pictures taken today.This is on the set of Venus at NTV 7 after the interview with Tan Twan Eng, show host Aishah Sinclair (the lady in red), and the other folks behind the show Grace Liew (next to her), an...

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* Some free stuff for your Kindle * As Scott McLemee is too humble to decide which of his columns are the best of all, he asks if you ...

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Yesterday I read one of the best chapters so far in London: the Biography.  Chapter 47 is entitled 'A Foggy Day' and in eight pages of per...

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John R. Brinkley was much more than just a mere medical quack, and his bizarre story is told with uproarious brio in Pope Brock’s...

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People don’t pay enough attention to how repugnance affects decisions about what can be bought and sold, asserts an economist at...

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