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A New Regard between Humans & Animals

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Common Keys to the Creative Process

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Strange Tools: Art & Human Nature

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Winter dance: Slow food steps to warm the heart

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Strange bedfellows: Elections, Money & Merit

Pounding the pavement for his candidate in the US mid-terms

When Desires of a Certain Kind Just Won't Let Go

A celebrity rough sex scandal that's rough on all of us. By

The Better Angels of Our Nature

The how and why of the decrease in violence. By Steven

A local hero's calm power

By the sheer force of his talent, character and muted

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Ah, Gin!

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Electoral Polls & The Machinery Behind the Curtain

Why the polling industry — and the media who are their