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K2 and Its Consequences

a shared story    16 weeks 4 days 19 hours 9 minutes ago
One inevitable measure of a mountain is simply how often climbers escape with their lives. By that standard, K2 stands almost alone in the world.   comments (0)  | report problem
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Peggy Noonan on the crisis for Republicans

a shared story    28 weeks 5 days 8 hours 27 minutes ago
Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has emerged as the best conservative columnist in the nation. And I mean that in the grand old tradition of intellectual and ethical conservatives: a dying breed as the attack dogs and dwarfs took over American conservatism. Anyhow, Noonan is in...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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American food supply at risk

a shared story    83 weeks 2 days 21 hours 4 minutes ago
The pet food crisis is forcing Americans to face a stomach-wrenching fact: The human food supply is little or no better protected than food for our dogs and cats. That's true even of domestic products, as we learned from the spinach contamination in September, but even more...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Helping Kids Who Hate High School

a shared story    13 weeks 2 days 17 hours 24 minutes ago
A couple of years ago I debated Chris Peters, a thoughtful and energetic high school teacher in San Bernardino, Calif., about vocational education. He thought it had more value than I did and could energize students who can't stand dry academics. I thought high schools...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
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Builder bets newly minted plaza in San Francisco will be an oasis

a shared story    54 weeks 6 days 18 hours 8 minutes ago
The stage is set, and a chic stage it is: Black pavers ripple across a former alleyway with an oak tree on one end, six ginkgoes on the other and a patch of dark spiky grasses in between. But plazas must be judged by how they function,...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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The YouTube Presidential Race

an original story    88 weeks 2 days 12 hours 30 minutes ago
How will this broadband phenomenon effect the presidential campaigns?  comments (0)  | report problem


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Why hasn't there been a bigger backlash against the misogyny aimed at Sarah Palin, asks Kira Cochrane

a shared story    5 weeks 6 days 24 minutes ago
Over the past few days, a music video entitled Red, White and Milf (short for "Mom I'd like to fuck") has appeared all over the internet. It features a cowboy singing a novelty song about Sarah Palin ("she came to us from the hills of Wasilla...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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The Omen In My Mail

a shared story    9 weeks 20 hours 24 minutes ago
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should "off" myself. Those are a few nuggets randomly selected from thousands of e-mails written...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
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Fundamentally: A Rally Built on a Government Rescue: Can It Last?

a shared story    10 weeks 4 days 25 minutes ago
With the terms of possible further assistance not spelled out, there is no guarantee that the upturn in the stock market will continue.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Analysis: Politics complicate financial bailout

a shared story    10 weeks 4 days 7 hours 25 minutes ago
Democrats began the week with a you-break-it-you-buy-it approach to the financial crisis: It's President Bush's fault, let him fix it. But disarray approached a meltdown and possible collapse of the entire economy. Only then did the Democrats, who control...   comments (0)  | report problem


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In Good Times and Bad

a shared story    6 weeks 2 days 20 hours 24 minutes ago
A dozen years ago, James Grant -- one of the wisest commentators on Wall Street -- wrote a book called "The Trouble With Prosperity." Grant's survey of financial history captured his crusty theory of economic predestination. If things seem splendid, they will get worse. Success...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
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Editorial: We have a duty to care for soldiers after conflict

a shared story    13 weeks 4 days 24 minutes ago
Editorial: Experience in the army is condemning thousands of young men to trauma, emotional problems, substance abuse and prison  comments (0)  | report problem


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