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+ Where am I? What just happened?

+ “ I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Team Romney’s polling cluelessness comes after years of conservatives demonizing pointy-heade...

+ 1.  Process Matters : Sharp data analysis beats squishy feelings. The accuracy of a handful of statisticians versus the bloviating ...

+ "Karina Sengupta, College and Wharton senior, said the announcement is “the best thing that has happened to investment bankin...

+ "Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans.  But I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners." -Romney,  ...

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+ He gets a little agitated when the subject of Zuccotti Park comes up:   "What’s the thing on the wall, what are you fighting...

+ “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald   + Dear Alabama,  We're...

+ + + { Foooooool's Gold }

+ { The Counterintuitive Physics of Tarzan Swings | MIT Technology Review   } + " By hanging on beyond this point, Tarzan be...

*** "In Lebanon, Tennessee, a town of less than 30,000 people, Mike Justice, the public safety coordinator, was so eager to accum...

+ (Ryan Tannehill, on why it’s important for him to work with the starters) – “Well, I want to be the guy. You don’t want to be a back...

+ { ISS Star Trails by Dale Pettit | Continue }

+ “Among men who rise to fame and leadership two types are recognizable–those who are born with a belief in themselves and those in who...

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+ “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau 

+ "Parag Khanna’s contempt for democracy aside, he is simply an intellectual impostor, emitting such lethal doses of banalities,...

+ Wut?

+ Recently, the local tribe sent Rosolie and Duran to a place both legendary and ecologically marvelous: a massive lake with a "ra...

+ Joey Crawford comes in there and his whistle falls out. I thought it was maybe a small  bird sneaking out  of Harden's  beard ...

+ Garrett McNamara will soon be listed by  Guinness World Records  as having ridden a larger wave than any other surfer, stealing ...

+ "Before the crisis, if I had been a narrow-minded economist, I would have been very pleased to see that academics had a big impa...

+ At Oregon, there is a long tradition of players policing themselves. Several Ducks reference a "code" followed by teammates who...

+         Yvonne : Where were you last night? Rick : That's so long ago, I don't remember. Yvonne : Will I see you tonight? Rick ...