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Man’s body left in mortuary for decade An inquiry has been launched after the body of a man who died in police custody turned up at a mortuary more than a decade after he was believed to have been buried. Christopher Alder, 37, a former paratrooper, choked to death while handcuffed in a police station. [...]

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Strange bedfellows don’t get any stranger than this. to the joy of a few dozen graduate students and culture jammers, and the utter bemusement of just about everybody else, the most significant American protest movement in years has been spending time under the sheets with an obscure French avant-garde movement whose ideas are so crazily [...]

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Category: Psychology/Philosophy.Target audience: General.How challenging is it to read?:The first section straight forward, the section on logotherapy more challenging though not too technical. It’s not often I read a book that brings tears to my eyes, but Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl did just that. Frankl uses his experiences as a Jewish [...]

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At birth we were given a blank book in which we get to write our life’s story. We are the authors of that book and we can make it an epic story or a tale of crushed hopes and frustrations. whether we like it or not, we will write that book. every page represents a [...]

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Updated: October 10, 2011, 6:28 AM When it comes to finding the best airfare, advice abounds. Problem is, some tips and conventional wisdom are questionable or downright wrong. Yet the myths are repeated everywhere from cocktail parties to media reports. Of course, booking a flight is a far different experience than it was a generation [...]

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Special to the Star-Telegram we treat them like family but often understand them like aliens. Read our need-to-know Dog Guide if you’re thinking about adding a dog to your family or need a better understanding of your pooch and how to help him be a healthier, happier man’s-best-friend.1. Sibling pups make poor housemates.while it’s often [...]

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Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011 Oct 17, 2011 – 03:06 AM By: Anthony_Cherniawski – when I last discussed the VIX two weeks ago, I had mentioned that the VIX was getting quite a bit of attention in the popular media. I should have suspected that it was the "kiss of death" for the continuation of [...]

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Float through any social event with M’s fast facts. this week Rick Arthur undertakes a Sisyphean task, a look at the big names of existentialism – from Sartre to… Oprah THE BASICS, PART ONE Existentialism is a philosophy. (That’s the easy part; now the sledding gets heavy, students, but bear with us.) Its founding premise [...]

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In a recent New Yorker story, Joshua Davis wrote a story on Bitcoin, the crypto-currency that has ignited the imaginations of the technorati and led to a rush of media coverage. But this is no usual magazine feature. Not only does Davis, a marvelous writer whose work I’ve long admired, offer a primer on Bitcoin–what it [...]

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I first saw April Bulmer’s poem, “Mai Po,” on another poet’s website. the poem touched me and brought together universal qualities of longing, sadness, the passing of time and personal search. I immediately googled April Bulmer, located her and told her I wanted to review her book, The Weight of Wings. Ms. Bulmer kindly forwarded [...]

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