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Farenheit 2014

  “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902) Attention all you bargain hunters out there! Thanks to you, Amazon has become the largest, most powerful bookseller in modern history. … Continue reading

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In The Eye of the Storm

Ours is a culture that takes both comfort and alarm from numbers.  The tour guide who uses the earth’s circumference to reflect the total number of bricks used to contain the visitors.  The newscaster who leads with a massacre’s totals, … Continue reading

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