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Ever ponder if a lame duck quacks?

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Ever ponder if a lame duck quacks?

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

For the next few weeks, Washington faces a brief, and important, window of opportunity. Suspended in time between an election that’s just over and another that’s already starting, the lame duck session of Congress has a critical question to answer.

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Scrooges not needed in Clinton

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Everyone by now is familiar with the character of Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” right?Ebenezer Scrooge can be described as a miserly miserable man who is only concerned about financial gain. Profit is his only joy and charity in his eyes is highly disdained with a sneer.

Trump gets played in Mar-a-Lago dinner

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Trump gets played in Mar-a-Lago dinner

Friday, December 2, 2022

What is sure to be one of the weirder moments of the 2024 presidential campaign has just taken place before the campaign is even fully underway.

VR may be a new effective add-on therapy

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VR may be a new effective add-on therapy

Friday, December 2, 2022

ASK THE DOCTORSDear Doctors: I'm having hand surgery next year to help with carpal tunnel, and I'm not thrilled about having anesthesia. I've been reading about surgeons whose patients use virtual reality headsets to need less anesthesia. Does that really work?

The talking heads get it wrong again

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The talking heads get it wrong again

Thursday, December 1, 2022

As so often happens, the national political press was virtually unanimous in getting the 2022 midterm elections all wrong.

Lessons from a captured CIA officer

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Lessons from a captured CIA officer

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Seventy years ago this week, a CIA paramilitary officer found himself strapped inside a C-47 aircraft over Manchuria on a top-secret mission when everything started to go wrong.The CIA asset on the ground he was poised to extract had been turned by Chinese security forces.

People with synesthesia experience the world with multiple senses

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People with synesthesia experience the world with multiple senses

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Dear Doctors: When our grandson first learned his colors, he sang them along with music. We thought he was copying that song for learning the ABCs. But when he got older, he started saying that he 'hears' the colors. We have been told this is called synesthesia. How and why does it happen?

Husband turns on the charm around friends

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Husband turns on the charm around friends

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

DEAR HARRIETTE: Now that people are going out again, my husband and I have attended a few events with friends and others. I notice that he turns on the charm big-time in front of other people, but when we are alone, he retreats to his corner of our home and rarely talks to me.

Where oh where have you gone, JFK?

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Where oh where have you gone, JFK?

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Is 80 too old to be president? That question hovers over American politics because Joe Biden reached that milestone last weekend, the first octogenarian in our history to occupy the White House.

Thoughts while waiting on my laundry

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Thoughts while waiting on my laundry

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

It's an odd experience watching someone fold your underwear.I was thinking this yesterday as I was waiting for my laundry. When my husband, Peter, and I packed to go to Mexico, we knew there would be a wide range of temperatures.