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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
REFUGE: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY OF FAMILY AND PLACE by Terry Tempest Williams
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Twenty years ago, a woman in her mid-thirties wrote a book that would become an environmental classic. I finally read it last week. Still in...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Fear, death, and being human: thoughts before surgery
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Heart and blood vessels (Leonardo da Vinci) I am scheduled to have open-heart surgery next week. They will open my chest, slicing righ...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND by Helen Simonson
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"This is the book I've been looking for," I said to my friend Carol at a book group last night. "I'm so tired of book...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Give me your tired, your poor - but only if they have a really good lawyer
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Everybody agrees - the U.S. immigration system is broken. Americans strongly disagree as to how it should be fixed. But there's one fix,...
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Why even hard-working, frugal, clean-living Tea Partiers may someday need Social Security and Medicare
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I have to ask myself: am I part of the American majority who wants to scale back government expenses – as long as none of my personal benefi...
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Friday, August 5, 2011
The United States of Florida; or, Why we can't give up Social Security and Medicare
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Yes, we have to do something about the federal budget. Yes, Social Security and Medicare cost a lot (about 1/3 of total expenses and rising,...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
INSIDE OF A DOG by Alexandra Horowitz
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - attributed to Groucho Marx Alex...
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