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Drink the water
Read more: Drink the waterRome is part sauna, part thermal bath, part swamp, a two-millennia-old troika. Heat in late summer Rome has the oppressive feel of a parental order to retreat to your room. Though the city doesn’t empty out as visibly as it once did, it still has the tropical sway necessary to…
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Duck and run
Read more: Duck and runDozens died Tehran on Sept. 8, 1978, when violence erupted suddenly. Here it was, two popes later, one dead and buried, another newly elected, and the boy wanted a rush. He wouldn’t have wanted it had he known the new pope would be dead in three weeks. But he didn’t…
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Pasture
Read more: PastureWelcome to the world of the jaded and damaged nerve. When eye’s cameras wither the world turns to butter and the mannerisms of sight melt away. The culprit is optic nerve, the brain’s image projector, or so you’re told. It can no longer see what you have in mind, offering…
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Mr. Smith
Read more: Mr. SmithThe cat that vanished… Mr. Smith is waiting for his wife to come home. He’s lonely sleeping alone. He tires of going out and playing cards with his buddies at the center. Even his colorful baseball stories grow old because he’s heard himself tell them so many times before. Like…
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Erectile function
Read more: Erectile functionHiroshima Aug. 6, 1945: 90,000-to-160,000 dead Understanding nuclear arms control in psychological terms means remembering who got there first, the United States. The U.S. was not only the first nation to develop the atomic bomb but also the first to use it, twice, ostensibly to bring Japan to its knees,…
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Voice in the night
Read more: Voice in the nightBogart and Bacall in “To Have and To Have Not.” You hear a voice on the phone, a woman’s voice, a stranger’s voice. So what then is love? Diction? Is it the way a cluster of syllables kindles hot hormones outside language? Is it the way spoken lines often rushed…
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