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Are these still the “habits of the heart” and “character of mind” in the American people today? In some it certainly remains so. But for too many of our fellow Americans, their minds cannot conceive ...

LET’S RECAP WHERE we are so far this year. I am back from Arizona, all jazzed up about the stark reality of the desert tumbling down from the mountains and melding with cactus. This unique character ...

Are you making some resolutions? If so, you’re not alone. One in three people make resolutions at the beginning of a new year. Unfortunately, statistics show that people who make those resolutions ...

It was one of those e-mails that keeps circulating. I don’t think it was one that warned if I did not forward it to 10 of my friends something catastrophic would happen to me today. (I never forward ...

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THERE are several trustworthy and readily available books on British mammals, such as Lydekker's and Sir H. H. Johnston's, not to speak of the expensive volumes of Millais and others, but there is a ...