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In a newsletter sent home to parents on Wednesday, Ramco Primary School in South Australia advised it would hold a “disability day” and fundraiser on Friday, May 29, with prizes for the “best students dressed as a person with a disability”.
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Its newsletter stated: “There will be prizes for the best students dressed as a person [...]

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OK, so it makes sense that one of the two major condiments on everyone’s table is salt — simple mineral, long history, used for preserving, one of the five basic tastes, and so on.
But why black pepper as the other one? Why not cinnamon or curry or mace or saffron or ginger or… you [...]

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Office… temperature… too… high….

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It used to be a general rule with Microsoft that the third version of its products was the good one. With Windows 7, the company got it in two.
I’ll explain. First off, that rule of thirds: Windows 1 and 2 were jokes; Windows 3.0 was where it hit the mainstream. Ditto for third versions [...]

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In all the talk about the causes and remedies for the recession, there seems to be one obvious thing that people fail to understand.
All the fixes that are being put into place have a similar goal: to free up credit so people can buy again. Once they start buying — homes, cars, whatever — the [...]

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A brand-new Key Tronic keyboard — the best you can buy, period. Yay!

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So the CIA and others are defending the use of torture (sorry “enhanced interrogation techniques”) with the tried-and-true excuse of “We were told it was OK.”
And that has some Republicans, amazingly, saying it’s a Bad Idea to prosecute the people who did the torturing, because it would — get this — make CIA officers today [...]

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The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin was the local newspaper at a major shooting incident today. And the paper did a damn fine job of covering it.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the failures of modern American newspapers to “do” journalism, and instead rely on repeating others’ statements. They repeat, I said; they don’t [...]

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