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(mid-career introspective retrospective...)

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In Other News...

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21. “Oh, my God.” “Oh, my word.” “Terrible.” from "September 11, 2001 — As It Happened — The South Tower Attack"

22. The Next Oxford English Dictionary Will Be Online Only But my magnifying glass doesn't work as well on my computer screen!

23. When It Comes to Butter Carving, There's No Margarine for Error The heads, made of 100% salted butter, are displayed at museums and weddings, used for cookies and corn roasts, and stored in freezers.

24. 10 Classic Stories of Suburban Ennui In anticipation of Franzen's book, we found ourselves thinking about the literary tradition of the suburban novel.

25. Laura Ingraham vs. Michael Gerson Fox News' battle with conservative Michael Gerson shows how extreme and fringe the Tea Party movement is.

26. 64% of women surveyed would make a sex take to get ahead To get ahead of what?

27. Excuse Me Sir, Your Tornado Is On Fire What's worse than a tornado? A tornado that's on fire.

28. The Pentagon's Flying Car Budget hawks? What budget hawks? They've approved a flying Humvee.

29. Building a Nation of Know-Nothings You can lead a horse to facts but you can't make him think.

30. A Weird Way of Thinking Has Prevailed Worldwide Wait. So, we're not all American undergraduates?

31. 'Software Issue' Allows Navy Drone to Wander DC Skies Maybe it's the Rise of the Machines. Or maybe they actually wanted the drone patrolling D.C. and invented a "software issue"...

32. We All Die There Now "One of the major differences between Kill Bill and Kick-Ass ... is that Kill Bill is good and Kick-Ass is bad."

33. Inmate Sexual Victimization Rises, While Feds Stall On New Rules On the positive side, the 4.4% reported rate of victimization is about 95% less than I expected.

34. Gmail glitch resends messages multiple times Apologies to anyone who has been receiving multiple messages from me. Google is "looking into it."

35. To all real journalists: Stop being such cowards! Journalists have an affirmative duty to defend their own profession's honor, what little remains of it.

36. TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults "Advanced boasts a more mature tone, aimed at an audience ready for grown-up news."

37. Overuse of Digital Devices May Lead to Brain Fatigue "Only when the rats take a break from their exploration do they process those patterns in a way that seems to create a persistent memory."

38. Why the world is running out of helium If you really cared about precious natural resources, you'd stop sucking on helium balloons to make your voice go all squeaky.

39. 8 Theories on Why College Kids Are Studying Less #9: we live at the End of Days.

40. The solar system is two million years older than we thought...and that changes everything The difference means our solar system was actually born in the blast furnace of a supernova.

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