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Sunday, February 02, 2003

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48 percent of trees lining New Jersey’s urban and suburban streets are maples.

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65 billion bacteria live

65 billion bacteria live in each square inch of a human’s upper throat.

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Saturday, February 01, 2003

“Migration Limits,” by Bob Rowthorn from

;History is, indeed, a central component of national self-understanding. But for much of the past 30 years, the notion of history as a grand narrative has been out of fashion, and the idea of placing the national history and culture at the centre of teaching in schools has been attacked as ethnocentric and reactionary. As a result, many British children leave school with no sense of the broad sweep of their national history and culture; they feel neither pride in the achievements of their nation, nor shame at its wrongdoings. There are various reasons for this. One is a desire to provide children with a cosmopolitan education to fit them for our post-imperial and, by implication, post-national future. Another is the desire not to exclude ethnic minority children by teaching them about events with which they have no personal connection. (Source Link)

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“Gordon, Wearing His Red Jacket, Slips on the Subway and Gets Blogged,” by Jeffrey Yamaguchi from

;I don’t know what made me do it, but today, on the subway, I tripped some guy, just this random guy wearing a red jacket. My foot just jutted out like someone else was controlling it, and this guy went a tumbling. I think he was too embarrassed to look back. I just kept my eyes in my book and hoped to God I didn’t get caught. Damn! What a rush! (Source Link)

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