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In college, my roommates and I inherited a GE fridge that was 30 years old and built like a Sherman tank; it seemed like it weighed as much as one - so says my muscle memory from room-storage-room moves each year. It was so cumbersome that when it came time to finally dispose of it, our...
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If there's one place you'd think it would be easy to buy beer, it would be the home of Bob and Doug McKenzie: Ontario, Canada's largest province. But having grown up in Ontario, I can assure you this is not the case. (So, American friends, add this to your list of misconceptions about...
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Mike Francesa, the "Mike" half of "Mike and the Mad Dog" of sports radio fame, is a man who prides himself on knowing everything about sports in New York, a media market where everybody thinks they know everything...
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Young people often have a very different perspective. Consider that one of the most viewed, highest revenue producing channels on YouTube is DisneycollectorBR. DisneyCollectorBR posts videos of her hands (with colorful nail polish and bracelets) unboxing Disney toys and playing with...
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"The intensity of gambling reinforced by the presence of the desert all around the town. The air-conditioned freshness of the gaming rooms, as against the radiant heat outside... Night of gambling sunlit on all...
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Recent literature on predictive factors for success has focused heavily on perseverance and resilience - both wrapped up in the term "grit," which could not be more in vogue. But I haven't had to read the literature; I learned about it in college, as a keen observer of the great bathroom war of...
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For any medium, some messages are more appropriate than others. For example, a message that typically would be communicated in an office memo would look a bit out of place, say, on a birthday cake...
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If you missed Serial, the first podcast that was a legitimate media phenomenon (downloaded more than 20M times), perhaps it's because you're not a Millennial. Called by some commentators a perfect...
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I heard a random fact recently that made me think: it was 40 years ago that The Brady Bunch ended its five-season run of original episodes on ABC. This meant that I, like many others who remember the Brady kids as a mainstay...
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In early September 1993, new Yale President Rick Levin gave his first welcoming address to matriculating freshmen - Yale College's class of 1997. According to tradition, following the address, the President situated himself outside Woolsey Hall in the Rotunda and the freshmen would...
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