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• I’m afraid all my children know about long-term commitment, they’re learning from their cell phone companies. It starts with romance, but ends with a contract “to have and to hold” — a hand-held device.

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My sons are coming for dinner, but I hope to give them something much more valuable and enduring than a meal and some gifts. Something I was never given, so today I’ll be giving it to myself as well. Finally, I will determine the difference between sweet potatoes and yams. Two different recipes — one [...]

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• How long before hunger meets greed and air travelers create a black market for in-flight tuna sandwiches? Can it be called an underground economy when the transactions take place 30,000 feet above ground?

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Everyone claims self-assuredly that newspapers cannot resist new media because they rely too heavily on written words. Why aren’t restaurant menus imperiled?

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Summertime is less mathematical and more poetic than summer itself. It steals a few days from May and a few from September to make its season fuller than the rest.

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Jurisdictionally speaking, northbound commuters are in Springfield and southbound motorists are in Eugene. That must mean something.

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Curiosity should be encouraged during the most hopeful season. Curiosity and hope propel us. Children are, after all, the future. We are the past. The present is up for grabs.

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If the doorbell rings while I’m watching television, I pass nine clocks before I reach my front door. The television, VCR and computer; the coffee pot, microwave, and stove; the thermostat, indoor/outdoor thermometer, and stereo. I think the dishwasher also knows what time it is, but it doesn’t tell me — I paid extra for the “ultra-quiet” model and I’m glad for it.

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Access to restrooms is a hot topic when the weather stays cold. A restroom can offer the destitute two things they most need: some rest and a room.

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RG09 – Licking This Downturn (693 words)
When financial markets roil, as they have for the past year, it makes English majors like me happy twice. First, we don’t get to use the word “roil” nearly enough. It’s such a small word, not pretentious — but slightly exotic. Unfortunately, there’s very little that roils in the [...]

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