If the First Spouse is willing, how about a thank-you note for every taxpayer signed by the President of the United States and the often much-more-popular First Spouse? (To save on postage, it could be mailed along with the annual Social Security report people get sometime close to their birthdays, for example.) And how about a dinner at the White House honoring the top 100 taxpayers in the country?

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The talk at the dinner parties in Davos is about how companies can best prepare for the growing volume of information, or how the global health context is in flux.

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We don't want to think of our gadgets as a window into the soul, or to worry about how our neighbors are influencing what we eat for dinner, or to believe that our movie preferences can be summarized by an equation.

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As I drove home from dinner that night, I began think about how that machine replaced at least three parking attendant jobs.

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But Senator Corker talked about how there was a discussion of whether they could have these frank discussions over dinner and then turn around and have the President attacking them in a partisan manner.

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His core discovery, of how to get spatial information about atoms in a magnetic field, was scribbled on a paper napkin over dinner in a Big Boy restaurant in Pittsburgh, between two bites of a hamburger.

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