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Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome…
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (487 words)

Only An Idiot Would Rob a Bank: How Inflation Deflated the Stick Up

Opponents of inflationary monetary policy sometimes refer to it as a slow-motion bank robbery. The comparison is a bit extreme, considering that in a healthy economy, savers can usually find savings…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2173 words)
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Stalking the Barbecued Mutton

I have wronged the state of Kentucky, but compared to the Kentucky Fried Chicken people I am an innocent. All I did was to pass on the information that a friend of mine named Marshall J. Dodge…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2760 words)

Introducing: Jessica Gross

This is a series of Q&As with young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters. They have – at least most of them – recently hatched in the Incubators…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1300 words)
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LENGTH: 1 minutes (302 words)

Out of Work, Out to California

When I lost my job I went out to California and I suppose there are a few reasons for that. One is that this is just what we do, we Americans, when we find ourselves without work: We go West to where…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2311 words)
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The Economics of a Part-time Drug Dealer

Part I: The Basics Jeff Winkler: So you’re a drug dealer? Part-time Drug Dealer: Yes. [Sound of his lighter flicking]. What do you sell? [Blows smoke] Marijuana. That’s it? Occasionally…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3904 words)
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Five Points of Advice to Young People on the Spending and Earning of Money, Pt. 1

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Below is the first of Five Points of advice to Young People on the spending and earning of money. The advice collected herein and within subsequent points of advice has been…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2054 words)
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