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Oppositional treatment design is remarkably accurate in an acute psychiatric setting. If you want to sleep, we want you to get up. If you ...

this guy's never been to Guantanamo

I have four sons, two domestic, two imported. The two imported sons spent time in Romanian orphanges -- a fairly small private Christian...

Language began 70,000 or more years ago. We can reconstruct languages with moderate assurance only about one-tenth that far, and most langua...

Yes, I said meat hats. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-123322263707848424 So much for the serenity of Eastern cultures.

It is not a good sign for someone to use the words "whatever it takes," when describing their readiness to stop using. You would ...

A clever amateur looks at a controversy among professional linguists, and attempts to determine which side is more reasonable, not from kno...

Several years ago, Donald Rumsfeld made a somewhat dismissive comment about "Old Europe." I wondered what a visit to the Old Euro...

Most of those born with the name of Wyman in this country descend from John and Francis Wyman, who settled in Massachusetts in the 1630’s. ...

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  Visitors to Auschwitz and other Holocaust memorials are often moved to tears by the shoes, or other homely items of the victims. Perhaps ...