Is there a model that explains language diversity? How well does it work?
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Alienating Kashmiris While Integrating (Annexing) Kashmir
India's right-wing BJP is trying to to absorb Kashmir. But no one asked the Kashmiris. Shahid Jamal writes.
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Free Thing of the Week: A Bowl for a Coin
We bring you tea, free. William Wayne Farris's book covers the story of tea in Japan.
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Happy Labor Day
Happy Labor Day from us at The Star.
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Sunday Comics
In a Sunday drizzle on Cuban heels, I rowed down the gutter to the blood bank and I'd left all my Comics on the Ticonderoga and was in a bad need of a shave.
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Stolen Fingerprints Could Spell the End of Biometric Security – Here’s How to Save It
Biometric security is the new thing, but there's a serious problem with it: you only have ten fingers. Chaminda Hewage writes.
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Paper Elephants
Fiction by Frankie Saxx.
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Your City isn’t Changing Nearly As Fast As You Think
Even in Seattle and Austin, cities don't change nearly as fast as people think. Daniel Herriges writes.
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The Fascinating History of Boredom
Boredom has historically been an emotion both viewed as an enemy and embraced for its possibilities. Michelle Fu writes.
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Bear Costume
Fiction by Steven Miller.
