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Support the Independents, Part 6'Few independent bookstores are more iconic than Powell's Books. Even readers who've never been to Portland, Oregon, know about the store from its ads in places like the...
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Lost in TranslationBetween the Genders'The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause for the serious misunderstandings that divide them.'--Simone de Beauvoir,...
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MasteryYou need not see what someone is doingto know if it is his vocation.You have only to watch his eyes;a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeonmaking a primary incision,a clerk completing a bill of...
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Our Favorite BookTitle, Part 23In a modest change of pace, this month's favorite--I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This--A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work--doesn't so much...
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Pardon Us While We Try Not to Lose Our LunchSarah Palin, the leading emblem of the return of the American No Nothing movement (you can learn more about its original flowering here) gave us not one but...
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Stop the Presses!The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reports that a recent study found that too much TV can hurt children. The shock waves are still vibrating through our body. Gee, we always thought it...
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A Humbling Thought for Teachers,But a Good Reminder for Mentors'You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it in himself.'--Galileo Galilei
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Amen To That"It is a continuing scandal that this vicious demagogue is kowtowed to by Republican politicians and enabled by nominally respectable media corporations and advertisers."--Hendrick...
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Lebron: Will He Stay or Go?The Cavs' Lebron James has formally petitioned the NBA to change his uniform number next year. Veteran NBA watchers say that means he's decided to stay with the Cavs next...
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Why You Really Should Send That LetterThe tongue is prone to lose the way,not so the pen, for in a letterwe have not better things to say,but surely say them better.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some Iconic Celluloid Gowns to RememberWe liked the gentle play on words in this L.A. Times magazine headline, and the accompanying article was pretty interesting too. As for our favorite movie gown,...
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Best Lead of the Month'Last summer in Seattle, Starbucks opened 15th Avenue and Tea, an unbranded café featuring “small batch coffees sourced from individually owned farms” and a variety of fussy...
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Please Join Me Next Week for a SessionOn Using Linkedin To Build Your NetworkI welcome readers from the Northeast Ohio region to join me next Tuesday evening for a seminar at the Beachwood Library on...
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'Mere Knowledge Is Not Enough''Man has two windows to his mind: through one he can see his own self as it is; through the other, he can see what it ought to be. It is our task to analyze and explore...
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Stop the Presses!Karl Rove's new book contains serial falsehoods. Who would have thought such a thing was possible? You can review earlier STPs here.
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Favorite News Photo & Video of the WeekA 42,000-year-old baby wooly mammoth, preserved intact by the Siberian permafrost. Whether you're an animal lover, a science person or just into history and...
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A Few Things We Couldn't Help NoticingThe Next Big Things: home tests for sperm count (gentlemen, drop your drawers). After that: using brain scans to help sell you things. A brave new world, isn't...
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Happy Irish Day'My Irish side is craving the Guinness I'll have at 4pm. My Ukrainian side clipped the recipe for Lola's Beef Cheek Pierogis in today's PD.'--our favorite St. Patrick's day-related...
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It Mostly Depends OnYour Preconceptions'The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made...
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Humor That Cuts a Bit Too CloseTo the Actual Truth to Be FunnyThe satirical Onion newspaper offers this take on the sluggish job market for new college graduates. We'd laugh, except for the fact that...
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