"Dusty's a winner everywhere he goes," Ramirez said. "He went to the
World Series in San Francisco. He went to the playoffs with us. I
think he's going to the playoffs here in Cincinnati.

http://wap.mlb.com/cin/news/article/2010082914065974/

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when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are
forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember
information, or come up with new ideas.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=E80BC7987FF37B42785F21A593B7B21D.w5?a=648539&single=1&f=24

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Once again, the world is about to end.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=eternal-fascinations

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Trader Joe's doesn't pick up on trends -- it sets them

http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/20/news/companies/inside_trader_joes_full_version.fortune/

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Christiane says her uncle's story reinforced for Stanley and her their
great principle in life: always be suspicious of people who have, or
crave, power.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/18/stanley-kubrick-christiane

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It's a city where no one really knows quite where they're going.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/16/chicago_on_the_yangtze?page=full

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In a town where celebrity scandals are as common as wildfires and taco trucks

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_34/b4192054590968.htm

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Reasoning was designed by evolution to help us win arguments.

http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/blogs/rod-dreher/americans-are-weird

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Just as modern abattoirs have studied the colors that can distract and
agitate cows during their final moments—thus ruining their meat with
adrenaline—prisons have painted their walls in soothing shades to
minimize anxiety and aggression in their inmates.)

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/prison-without-walls/8195/

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It was a big mistake for me to take a degree in anthropology anyway,
because I can't stand primitive people—they're so stupid.

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kurt-vonnegut-at-the-blackboard.php?page=all

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This is how they reacted to the dissonance of being wrong: by becoming
even more certain that they were right.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/the-psychology-of-conspiracy-theories/

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One Pennsylvania lineman recalled: "I've seen this happen — the lights
come on — hundreds of places, and it's an emotional situation you
can't describe…something happens, lightning strikes them and they all
at once are different. People prayed, they cried, they swore."

http://mobile.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/08/01/the_incandescent_bulb_an_obituary/

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Everybody likes the backup quarterback.

http://m.mlb.com/cin/news/article/2010080112888732/

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