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Why Colleges Are Not Degrees
How Colleges and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campuses In this post, I’m going to highlight a few of the more common and, frankly, rather dumb ways that colleges and sports-betting companies attempt to “dumb down...

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How Japanese Art Fits into Japanese Culture
In Japan, Artisans Create ‘Cut Glass From Edo’ About three weeks ago, my girlfriend and I were driving in Nagoya, Japan, when we saw a display of glass created by someone with a “cut-glass”...

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Harry Potter’s dad Radcliffe says he would avoid fame
‘Harry Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe says he ‘wouldn’t want fame’ for his kids: Avoid ‘at all costs’ “I would say avoid fame. I would say avoid it all at once. I’d much prefer it...

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NBC DFW Orange County Truck Accident
Big rig overturns onto car on 405 Freeway in O.C., injuring 1 and snarling traffic The accident involved a truck being overturned on a busy freeway in Orange County. NBC DFW The scene of...

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California’s drought is the third-worst in decades
California should expect a 'fourth dry year' as drought persists The Associated Press Thursday Jul 25, 2018 at 6:06 PM The California drought has continued, and the state's drought monitor remains at very unhealthy...

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Fires in Paradise
Every burned town is tragic. But Newsom needs to lead with science, not sentiment. “Burned Towns” is now a regular feature in this newspaper’s Opinion section. The Town of Paradise, on the west foothills...

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I went to Selma to protest Governor Wallace’s orders to desegregate the entire state
Letters to the Editor: Racists and antisemites have freedom of speech. So do decent people with good intentions. But the hateful, bigoted, and racist are not allowed to speak or write. Their voice is...

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Musk and Grimes have a public spat of their own after a public spat on Twitter
Trent Reznor says he's moving on from Twitter, and Elon Musk is taking it personally. In an interview with The Guardian on Wednesday, Reznor said he was tired of being a "sucker for a...

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How to Change Your Handwriting Style
Do You Have Messy Handwriting? We Want to See It. Forget the traditional penmanship books. We're tired of seeing pages filled with those handwriting styles that, despite having no visible mistakes, leave you scratching...

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Bob Dylan Signs Books — A New Way of Signing
Bob Dylan blames vertigo and pandemic for use of autopen to sign 'autographed' books in his career Bob Dylan has used autopen to sign autographs. Now, amid pandemic, he's had to find a new...