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There’s a certain sadness one gets when coming to the end of a good book. One wants the story to go on, to know that the characters continue to live and that the world they inhabit does not cease to exist. That’s how I felt coming to the end of, for instance, The Lord of [...]

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At one time there was an anti smoking billboard in town that displayed in large, bold red letters the following message: 400,000 SMOKING RELATED DEATHS THIS YEAR in the obvious attempt to persuade people to stop smoking. As I recall, it also showed the face of a child or a young woman. Most of you [...]

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Mark Butterworth has some interesting http://www.callistergreen.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_callistergreen_archive.html#110446178479603238 comments on “success”: “Michael Medved read extracts from portions of his new book, Right Turns, which didn’t make the cut and were edited out. One section had to do with his success as a teenager at selling encyclopedias. He ended the chapter with a brief homily on the key [...]

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AP to Enforce High Security Number Plates For Vehicles The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to enforce high security number plates for all vehicles in the state. The new number plates, to be introduced in six months, would also have the chassis and engine numbers of the vehicle, apart from the registration number, according to [...]

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“I keep hoping that this feeling will pass, the constant gnawing that ebbs only for an hour or so after dinner. Other than that brief respite, I feel it constantly — upon rising, after breakfast, mid-morning, after lunch, throughout the afternoon, into the evening, and upon settling down to sleep. I find myself awaking in [...]

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Why Flowers Don’t Have Faces by Amy, age 8 Before Adam ate his apple, the flowers had faces. Before you saw smiles, but now you just see traces. Now to see the smiles you must travel miles. The devil long before had destroyed our smiles. That is why to see them you must travel miles.

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I’ll bet that most of you think an increasing Gross National Product is a good thing for the country. Or maybe you don’t, and you’ve come to realize that GNP stands for Going Nowhere Prettyfast. Anyway, considering how GNP figures are calculated, it is clear that GNP may well be inversely proportional to national quality [...]

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A good online friend without a blog needed a rant. No one gets fired in Hollywood. I don’t know if you have noticed that. People part company because of “creative differences.” Executives tend to move to another branch of the studio, even if the branch has to be invented. Contract negotiations fall apart. But think [...]

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