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On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living

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Robert Fuller

Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.

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Why Do We Hate Good-Byes?

Robert Fuller | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

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Robert Fuller

Our distaste for good-byes is a reminder of our unfathomable mutual dependence. An individual self cannot come into being, let alone endure, absent the recognition of others.

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A Little Poetic Gluttony

John Lundberg | Posted 12.31.2008 | Living

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John Lundberg

I once heard a nutrition expert claim that no matter how much you eat, it's impossible to gain a pound during a meal. Well, on one day a year, all of...

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