Yesterday, an old and sick retired tool-and-die maker was arrested outside his home in a quiet Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood. The offense? Mass murder. Eighty-nine-year-old Johann “Hans” Breyer is being detained…
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Doctor Stranger, aka Dakteo Yibangin, is a South Korean television drama, broadcast by the Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), that nation’s only privately-owned network. It tells the story of a South Korean doctor…
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“They dance, they drum; they go on the warpath… symbolic servants, they serve as mascots and metaphors. We rely on these images to anchor us to the land and verify…
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Silicon Valley and the tech industry exude so much optimism it’s contagious. There is a desire to solve the planet’s most difficult problems and a belief they can do it.…
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Even though, according to Gallup, Americans worry about saving for retirement than any other single financial issue, their words and deeds are not matching up. According to research by Merrill…
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In a fascinating TED lecture delivered in October, 2009, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses what she calls “the danger of a single story.” She tells of her childhood reading…
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Tensions in Iraq could roll up on our shores and hit the US economy directly, even if we never fire a shot in the current conflict. While military experts analyze…
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The fuss about radio personality Casey Kasem’s death is probably astonishing to anyone under 40. In an age where local radio has become something programmed by a consultant thousands of…
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TALIBAN TAKES FLIGHT: The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack at the country’s largest and busiest airport. This fans the flames of instability in nuclear-armed Pakistan, and again raises the…
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See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. Let’s imagine living in a country with free health care and education. A place where everyone has a job and there are no homeless…