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Odd Jobs
The summer after my freshman year in college, I worked at the local mall in a shop called The Laminators. It was basically a framing shop, but instead of putting people's diplomas and photos into...
October 3, 2011 · 11:00 AM
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Experiment In Progress
I was not quite six years old.  I didn't have much of a vocabulary, and found TV shows other than cartoons utterly boring.  But my tiny, everyday world was filled with mind-stretching mysteries....
August 15, 2011 · 9:28 PM
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Knowing Without Really Knowing
Near the end of my second year in graduate school, I spent a sunny afternoon in Boston at the city’s Earth Day celebration.  I bought something to eat from a street vendor: maybe a gyro sandwich...
February 28, 2011 · 12:00 PM
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Goodbye Teeth
As I sat in the fluorescent light of the waiting room last Friday, I thought about how I was going to miss my teeth.  It wasn’t that I was facing a lifetime of difficulty chewing.  Wisdom teeth...
February 14, 2011 · 9:14 AM
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Puppy Love
The four tiny Chihuahua puppies were whirlwinds of frantic energy moving across the carpeted sunroom floor.  The two smallest and darkest, male and female littermates, wandered among the watching...
January 30, 2011 · 6:22 PM
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Challenger
In the final moments of the dream, I watched my 9th grade Spanish teacher throw a portable radio high into the air.  As it landed with a crash, I awoke to the sound of my UCLA roommate, Bobby,...
January 27, 2011 · 9:45 AM
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Inauguration Day
The little town in southern North Carolina featured a small collection of chain hotels, the usual fast food joints and an industrial plant that had contaminated the groundwater with its waste.  I...
January 20, 2011 · 8:17 AM
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Closing Thoughts
A few weeks ago I had a minor health scare: an anomaly during a routine checkup that could have been serious but turned out, after 11 days of waiting to see a specialist, to be nothing...
December 29, 2010 · 11:34 AM
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Exam Stories
In the fall of my junior year in college, I got stuck with a final exam in the very last possible time block, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. on a Friday.  The test--on industrial organization theory--was...
December 13, 2010 · 7:59 PM
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The Gift
I met my future wife on the fifth of December some years ago.  I was sitting with a friend and colleague in the lobby of The Priory, a Pittsburgh hotel.  We had flown in from San Diego for a staff...
December 5, 2010 · 2:29 PM
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