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  • The Last of the World War I Vets Speak Pending

    Slate by Richard Rubin | May. 23, 2013
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    William J. Lake, 107, one of several dozen American WWI veterans Richard Rubin interviewed in the last decade for his book The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation ...

  • For the Private and Confidential Use of the Recipient Pending

    Slate by Emily Yoffe | May. 23, 2013
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    Get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week; click here to sign up. Please send your questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.) Dear ...

  • Dating Superman Pending

    Slate by Seth Stevenson | May. 23, 2013
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    In the future, will we be able to examine our brain activity to empirically determine whether an emotion is love or lust? When you're single and going on lots of dates, you ...

  • Is My Toddler Autistic? Pending

    Slate by Melinda Wenner Moyer | May. 23, 2013
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    An autistic child looks out from behind a chair at a consulting center for autism. A few columns ago, while attempting to explain why toddlers do crazy things, I mentioned ...

  • Are Apostrophes Necessary? Pending

    Slate by Matthew J.X. Malady | May. 23, 2013
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    One hundred and eighteen miles north of London, in the town of Boston, England, there lives a retired newspaperman named John Richards who is experiencing an unusually rotten ...

  • From Africa to the Board Room Pending

    Slate | May. 23, 2013
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    When economist Dambisa Moyo writes about the challenges facing African nations, she draws in part on her own roots and the great distance she has traveled since growing up in ...

  • The Beauty of Bounded Gaps Pending

    Slate by Jordan Ellenberg | May. 22, 2013
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    Yitang Zhang, lecturer in mathematics at the University of New Hampshire The stereotype, outmoded though it is, is that new mathematical discoveries emerge from the minds of ...

  • Stop Aid to Africa Now Pending

    Slate | May. 22, 2013
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    Dambisa Moyo, economist and author, discusses international aid with Jacob Weisberg. When President Obama visits Africa in late June, one of the main agenda items will be how ...

  • Don’t Pray for Oklahoma Pending

    Slate by Mark Joseph Stern | May. 22, 2013
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    A U.S. flag hangs among the debris of a torando-devastated house on May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. After the woman recounted the last-minute escape that saved her family’s ...

  • You Do Not Have Asperger’s Pending

    Slate by Amy S.F. Lutz | May. 22, 2013
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    The autism community is a fractious bunch. We argue over the causes of autism, the best treatments, or even if it should be treated at all. But we do share a common anxiety: ...

  • The Pedestrian–Cyclist Armistice Pending

    Slate by L.V. Anderson | May. 22, 2013
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    Christine Ribbecke tries out a Citi Bike model bicycle at Bike Expo, an exposition for cyclists, May 3, 2013, in New York. New Yorkers prepare for the launch of the Citi Bike ...

  • Is Everyone Smoking Pot but Me? Pending

    Slate by Soraya Roberts | May. 22, 2013
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    Living in Toronto, it's virtually impossible to leave your house without walking into a skunky cloud of aptly-named chronic In 1990, in Canada’s capital, if you drove along ...

  • The Highly Effective Idiot Pending

    Slate by Philip Preville | May. 22, 2013
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    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is swarmed by reporters as he enters Toronto City Hall on Friday. But there is something that should be said. Rob Ford is a crass, offensive, and ...

  • For the People, by the People Pending

    Slate by Amy Crawford | May. 22, 2013
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    Town meetings are the last vestige of true direct democracy in the United States, and about as close as you can get today to the sort of government practiced by the Greek ...

  • Fear Itself Pending

    Slate by David Weigel | May. 22, 2013
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    A Tea Party demonstration against the IRS Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla. At noon today, at the urging of the local Washington, D.C. Tea Party, nearly 100 activists gathered on ...

  • Pottermania Pending

    Slate by Katie Roiphe | May. 22, 2013
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    A tourist re-enacts a scene from Harry Potter at King's Cross station. On a recent trip to London, my 9-year-old, Violet, wanted to visit the places that composed what she ...

  • The Man in the Pink Suit Pending

    Slate by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell | May. 22, 2013
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    Left photo courtesy of Warner Brothers; right photo courtesy of HBO Everywhere you look these days, dudes look like ladies. At the movies, Leonardo DiCaprio struts around West ...

  • Do Charter Schools Work? Pending

    Slate by Ray Fisman | May. 22, 2013
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    On June 4, 1991, Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson signed into law a bill that set in motion one of the most significant—and controversial—education reform movements in modern ...

  • The White House To-Do List Pending

    Slate by John Dickerson | May. 22, 2013
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    President Obama (L) in the oval office with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough (R). Is the administration choosing the right things to show seriousness about? When White House ...

  • The Inn of the Second-Act Happiness Pending

    Slate by Emily Yoffe | May. 22, 2013
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    Ellen Goldberg grew up helping out at her family’s two furniture stores, and to her it was a lesson in the drawbacks of being your own boss: the long hours, the sore feet, ...

  • Prog Bots Into Darkness Edition Pending

    Slate by Stephen Metcalf | May. 22, 2013
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    Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 244 with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and June Thomas with the audio player below. Culturefest is on the radio! “Gabfest Radio” combines ...

  • Culinary Racism Pending

    Slate by Jesse Bering | May. 22, 2013
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    Pro golfer Sergio Garcia has now apologized twice for saying, at a European Tour players’ dinner in London, that he would serve Tiger Woods fried chicken for dinner during ...

  • Obama’s 301 Drone Strikes Pending

    Slate by Chris Kirk | May. 22, 2013
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    Update, May 22, 2013: The Obama administration formally acknowledged on Wednesday that U.S. drones strikes in Pakistan and Yemen have killed four Americans. The disclosure ...

  • Steve Jobs’ Dream Device Has Arrived Pending

    Slate by Farhad Manjoo | May. 21, 2013
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    Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television. His fantasy device would control all the many doodads that ...

  • All Killer Tornadoes Since 1950 Pending

    Slate by Chris Kirk | May. 21, 2013
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    Tornadoes that have killed at least one person since 1950 A circle marks the end coordinates of each tornado. The area and transparency of each circle reflects the number of ...
 
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