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Feed Me!

It's a pretty safe bet that sometime in your adult life, you will manage to kill a few houseplants through simple neglect. Though it's easy to forget to pour water over your roommate's African violets every morning, it's pretty hard for even the most...

The World This Week: Library Cards

It sounds like the plot to a new Monty Python Broadway musical, Spy-a-lot: You are a librarian in a quiet town. One day a government spy—played by Eric Idle sporting a greasy moustache and doing his nod-nod-wink-wink routine—hands you a "secret...

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Unflattering ReviewsOnce upon a time an interviewer asked Louis Armstrong to explain jazz. Satchmo, with his characteristic good humor and rich, bass voice, replied, "Man, if I have to explain it to you, you ain't never gonna get it." The same can be...