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		<title>Hard Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only the most boring questions have answers. For example, here are three of the world&#8217;s most interesting and least answerable questions, which are posed at the beginning of Douglas Adams&#8217; space odyssey, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: &#8220;Why are we born? Why do we die? And why do we spend so much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twelfth Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twelfth Night is supposed to mark the end of the Christmas season. Before midnight, unless we want to risk bad luck all year, the decorations must be taken down, and the last traces of the holiday removed. Our neighbors don’t know this. The morning after Twelfth Night, January 6, we’re still surrounded by houses draped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year, Old Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are sliding into the thirteenth year of the twenty-first century. It’s no longer a novelty. Most people write the date on their checks correctly, and we’ve learned to say “two thousand twelve” with great panache. The twentieth century already seems almost as remote and historic as the nineteenth. 
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		<title>Mixed Messages</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t seem to stop sending Christmas cards. I had planned to give it up this year but, when the cards started coming in, I felt guilty, wrote two or three, then twenty, then fifty, just like last year. It seems to be one of those habits learned in childhood that are almost impossible to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I See the Lights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the month of December, driving around the suburbs at night can be a profoundly surrealistic experience. Most of the residential streets are dull and dark, as usual. But sometimes you turn a corner and see a multi-colored glow in the sky, as if aliens had landed on the next block. It&#8217;s another Christmas light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Must Go to the Mall</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I came to live in suburban Long Island, New York, people would say &#8220;You must go to The Mall,&#8221; as if it was the local equivalent of the Sistine Chapel. I noticed that The Mall was always capitalized in speech, like The Catholic Church.
Eventually, reluctantly, I made my way to The Mall. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Believe in Magic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we could travel back in time about two hundred years, and find one of the famous 18th century rationalists &#8211; say Voltaire &#8211; and bring him back with us to enjoy Halloween at the end of the twentieth century, what would he make of our world?  Well, he&#8217;d certainly be impressed by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret of Zen Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must have been thirty years ago that I first read Alan Watts&#8217; book, The Way of Zen. This was long before Zen became fashionable, and long before Robert Pirsig made a national bestseller out of the unlikely topic Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance, which is a clever book, in spite of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conspicuous Consultation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew the economy was on the move when my neighbor Dan hung out his shingle as a &#8220;Domestic Equipment Integration Consultant.&#8221; He used to be a highly-paid engineer, assembling jet aircraft. Now he helps people to assemble those consumer items, like barbecue grills and bicycles, which annoyingly come in about a hundred pieces with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Syndrome is Your Syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been some very strange news stories this year about a psychological condition called Munchhausen&#8217;s Syndrome by Proxy. According to the reports, Munchhausen&#8217;s Syndrome by Proxy causes the  sufferers &#8211; who are usually  mothers or nurses or care-givers &#8211; to fabricate serious illnesses and seek medical treatment,  not for themselves but [...]]]></description>
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