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From Quotes by James Fallows
- For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
- I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can…
- No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and…
- The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears…
- The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in…
- The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he…
- When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept…
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