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The LA Times reports in Support for War in Iraq Hits New Low that only 39% of Americans “believed the situation in Iraq was “worth going to war over”, and that “a large majority, 65%, said they believed the war …

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Bill Gates in a 1983 Teen Beat photspread.

Edge has published the results of its annual question “What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” Chris Anderson writes (scroll down) that according to the standards of Intelligent Design, “virtually everything I believe in must …

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Garrison Keillor used to publish an advice column on Salon called Mr. Blue; wonderful words of wisdom. I missed it sorely when he retired, and it took a while for me to attune to the voice of his replacement, Cary …

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Nice article at technologyreview.com on Technology and Happiness which starts out by saying that Americans are less happy now than in 1946, and that the Amish rate considerably higher than the average American. There are two points that the article …

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