Say what you need to say . . . very good advice indeed, but don’t make it contingent on anyone paying attention to you if you know they have decided in advance that what you want to say isn’t worth listening to. A certain type of courage comes from revealing the heart of your feelings […]
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Growing a garden is one of the best ways to improve your quality of life and support a sustainable, healthy environment. Accordingly, we turned to former US Represented staff writer Sandra Knauf for advice since this is one of her areas of expertise. In a recent conversation, she gave us ten reasons to grow a garden. Most
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Written in 2001, this essay may seem dated in some respects. The author believes that its plea for thoughtful consideration of the place of computers in education and in human life remains valid. I – To the Winter Palace “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They
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If you live to be 82 years old, you have around 30,000 days on Earth. However, how much free time on Earth do you get in those 30,000 days? If you subtract the seven hours of sleep the average person gets a night, you’re left with about 21,300 days of awake time. Now, subtract 30 hours
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In the early spring of 1935, the great Dust Bowl, during months of wind storms, had left drifts of sandy soil on the streets of downtown Colorado Springs. On May 3, the region received its first snow in 18 years in which 12 inches of snow fell over a couple of days, turning those reportedly
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For Bazin . . . film is actually like a record of God, or of the face of God, or of the ever-changing face of God . . . it shouldn’t be based on the script. It should be based on the person or the thing. And in that sense, [Hollywood is] almost right to have
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