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It was one of the darkest days of World War II. The Japanese were advancing to the Pacific; Hitler seemed…
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Earlier this month, officials announced the winner of the competition to design a replacement for the World Trade Center and…
A colleague of mine recently went shopping for CDs. He was greeted at the store by a life-sized cutout…