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Create Your Own Language, for Credit - 0 views

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  • sworrall16 on 02 Mar 16
     
    1. What do you say to embarrass a polar bear? 2. How might an underwater society write? 3. Can a creature without teeth say "tooth"? 4. How many verbs for "to pray" does an angel need? These are some of the questions students have pondered in "Invented Languages" at Stephen F.
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It's in America's DNA to Be 'Divisive' - 0 views

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  • sworrall16 on 02 Mar 16
     
    Let's face it: There are some things we just can't face. Life's too short. Somebody's too sensitive. And the subject - whatever it is, although lately it's been whatever - is too third-rail dangerous. Border walls, charter schools, closing Guantánamo, global warming, that Al Jazeera documentary claiming Peyton Manning used performance-enhancing drugs, Hillary Clinton, #OscarsSoWhite: Why bring any of this up?
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The End of Small Talk - 1 views

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    When my relationship unraveled nearly two years ago, I decided to suspend my career as an actuary in Boston and take a long vacation in Costa Rica, where I planned to learn how to surf and do yoga. Yes, it was the most clichéd response possible for a heartbroken 32-year-old Westerner like me.
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