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Deodorant Ads Help Us Learn About an Important Word: Incitement

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 09.21.2009 | Comedy

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Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

It's how a culture gets you to read yourself, so that you think you are just expressing and reacting to your natural, real self. But hello, culture invented your self. It's not entirely natural.

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Burying Ben Franklin

Daniel Krotz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

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Daniel Krotz

My friend is depressed by how things are turning out. He realizes how unreflective he has been, and he has suddenly realized how badly people are being served by our institutions.

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Eat Your Fears and Snuff Them Out

Grant Cardone | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

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Grant Cardone

Ask 10 people this simple question, "Freak or super freak?" And I assure you regardless of their political views all ten will answer "Super Freak."

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Newly Discovered Ben Franklin Letters Sheds New Light On Early US History

CNN | Melissa Gray | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

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An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a s...

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Benjamin Franklin Letters Found In London

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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University of California - San Diego professor Alan Houston has discovered 47 copies of letters written by Benjamin Franklin in the Spring and Summer ...

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Seeking Happiness? Try Pursuing Purpose

Anne Dunev | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living

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Anne Dunev

It appears we contemporary Americans may have switched the interpretation of "pursuit of happiness" to "pursuit of pleasure."

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