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Culture

Paperless school?

Student art is officially a fire hazard in Boston schools.

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Culture

Take some Pheduprin.

If you’ve had too much Platitudium Bromide or Soporifiquil, try some Pseudointellectuol or Pedanticort.

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Culture Judaism Psychology

God-talk on the couch.

“Because the basis of Yair Caspi’s concept is that all of us — secular, Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox — worship idols of some sort, the student must identify his idol and what he sacrifices to this false god.”

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Culture Science

Humanism vs. science?

Don’t you just love it when a reductionist decides that other people are dogmatists?

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Culture Science

The final frontier.

“It’s easier than you’d think to become science fabulous.”

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Culture History

Yoga missionaries.

“How a group of turn-of-the-century Cambridge women made America safe for yoga.”

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Culture

Got church?

“Advertisers say churches should highlight their community life, the chance to have a good sing, hear a good sermon and have a heart-to-heart chat.”

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Culture Marriage

Marriage prospects.

Katherine Boo’s “The Marriage Cure” may be the most devastating feature story I’ve read.

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Conflict Culture History

Condemn by repeating the past.

“The reliance on historic analogies is an evasion of the particular, indeed novel, political complexities that face us now, complexities that have emerged since (but are not solely the result of) September 11.”

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Culture Marriage

The arrangers.

Inspired by reality TV, a mother holds auditions for her marriageable daughter.