We’re in the air again, my family and me and today’s newspaper.
This time it’s the Daily Telegraph, dominated on Page 14 by a large ad for the latest iPad. Beside it, a smaller story on how one in four U.K. teachers wouldn’t send their own kids to the schools they teach in. And below, a brief about a Pediatrics Journal study that shows obese youth don’t think so well.
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SANTA FE, N.M. I’m in America’s oldest state capital, in Café Olé, with a sandwich and drink and new hope to never become a moron.
Here for some postgrad studies, I’m also enjoying a recent copy of America’s satirical news tabloid, The Onion.
“Nation’s Morons March on Washington State,” is its banner headline. Thousands of morons, the Onion reports, recently marched in Washington State thinking they were actually in Washington, D.C.
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LONDON — The world is getting faster. And stranger. Have you noticed?
This is what I know. I think. I mean, sometimes it’s hard to know what we know. Take Joseph Kony. He’s someone who, thanks to social media, you likely know.
I’m betting you know Kony is that Ugandan warlord with a strangely genteel face, that he’s abducted thousands of Ugandan boys and stole their souls when he made them into so-called soldiers.
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Continents apart, generations and circumstance between them, hands always tell the stories.
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Your mother is dead. Divorce knocks. Your son is lost. It’s cancer. You’re laid off. You’ve broken up. The car crash. You can’t stomach it all. Trust?
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I think of what Saint Augustine said: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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In Berlin, both presidents had watershed moments, and both are revered.
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It’s not the Glacier Express climbing through the Swiss Alps. It’s not Vietnam’s Reunification Express winding into the more exotic jungles of the world. And it’s certainly not the Orient Express, that legendary locomotive of opulence and intrigue immortalized by Agatha Christie.
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