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Jaws, Bill Gates, and the Rise of the Geek Hero
A few weeks ago on the Fourth of July, my husband and I took advantage of some good friends’ offer to watch our four-year-old son, and went off to celebrate our eighth wedding anniversary, somewhat improbably, by catching an afternoon showing of the 1975 movie classic Jaws....
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Betraying the Story
One night during the summer of 1967, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in the front yard of my uncle’s house in Louisiana. Like my father, my Uncle Paul was a dentist, and on the night that the cross was lit....
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(Extra) Ordinary People
This past Monday morning I kneeled down on a flagstone sidewalk to tell my four-year-old son that he was going to be just fine going in to his new summer day camp. It was his first day at this new camp....
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Apocalypse, Kind-Of
...brothers and sisters, maybe it is time to consider the simple, low-carbon-footprint life as being a function of no other option. Last Wednesday night, as a huge storm system swept across the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, scattering tornadoes....
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The Pure, Local, Organic Thing Itself
In the leafy, old, inner-ring suburb where I live, my very diverse neighbors have lots of contrarian opinions on all kinds of things, but there’s one thing that everyone agrees on: Buy Organic. In theory, this sounds like a straightforward process....
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Issue 72
Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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