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"If there's any lesson in these attacks, it's not to focus too much on the specifics of the attacks. "
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"Does the aesthetic appearance of a blog affect what's written by the site's commenters?"
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How to encrypt and decrypt with RSA, with a worked example.
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"My college makes leaders. Or at least it will just as soon as our new mission statement goes into effect. The draft of the new mission statement leaves no doubt about this: The word "leadership" appears twice, in the first two sentences, followed by "leader" in the third sentence."
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"[W]hy, you ask, would anyone mix melamine with anything animals (or people) would ingest? "
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Because you can never have too much good advice about giving presentations.
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"The Rube Goldberg machine of Tim LaHaye's dispensational eschatology is Bad Theology not just because it's a silly 19th-century invention that requires the vivisection and pureeing of scripture, but also because it's based on assumptions about human nature (and divine nature) that are incompatible with what most Christians believe. It's based on assumptions about human nature, in fact, that seem irreconcilable with what most humans believe -- with what most humans know from experience."
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