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Editor's Letter
feature It’s harder than ever to find a spot on Earth that hasn’t been turned into a marketing opportunity. Everything from park benches to high school gymnasiums now comes with commercial sponsors, and ads have been popping up in restaurant bathrooms and even at
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Editor's Letter: Our chaotic times
feature I lifted my hand to wave, but her head was fixed straight ahead. All I could do was stand and watch as the ground beneath me registered a subtle quake.
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Editor's Letter: Online ads and precise optimization
feature Marketers are starting to employ a new technology, dubbed real-time bidding, that enables them to target messages based on what we’re doing online at that very moment.
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Editor's Letter: Human fallibility
feature Let us not put too much trust in those who navigate this world with smug certainty; the truly wise concede their fallibility up front, and keep learning from their mistakes.
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Editor's Letter: The upside to creative destruction
feature For music fans, there is an upside to creative destruction. On a Woodstock stage recently, I watched a friend stretch her lungs in some of the open space left by the industry’s retreat.
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Editor's Letter
feature Barack Obama and generational transcendence
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Editor's Letter: Some perspective on the word "mastermind"
feature Why are we calling thugs, zealots, and swindlers masterminds?
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Editor's Letter
feature Exoticism is in the beholder’s eye.
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Editor's Letter: The information consumer
feature May the new year bring us all more wisdom, and not quite so many zettabytes.
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Editor's Letter: Political swordsmanship
feature National politics, always a rough game, has devolved into something meaner, more personal—a blood feud. The primary agenda now is to score points, and to damage the other party whenever possible.
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Editor's Letter: Taking care of their own
feature People have an instinct to take care of their own, but depending on the circumstances, this bit of human nature can be problematic and even scandalous.
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Editor's Letter: Say again, who is accountable?
feature Democrats have been reminding us that President Bush didn’t fire a single official in the wake of 9/11. When Democrats are citing Bush as a role model, something certainly must be amiss.
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Editor's Letter: A new era of “duck and cover”
feature Decades of living under nuclear threat during the Cold War fostered a fatalism that tempered the jitters and allowed us to laugh in the face of existential peril. Will we someday muster a similarly cheeky response to the era of color-coded alarms
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Editor's Letter: Claiming George Washington
feature Today's Tea Partyers pay homage to George Washington, but they should also remember that Washington didn't fully support the original tea party, and that he was decidedly hostile to an anti-tax rebellion during his presidency.
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