Adam explained that we were taking my mother's ashes to visit her parents, but that she had to make the journey in shadow.

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Adam Smith explained it all near 250 years ago.

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As Adam Gopnik recently explained in the New Yorker, snowflakes, like most new Ivy grads, first-year lawyers or freshly minted MBAs, start out their work lives pretty much the same.

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The basic point was well explained by Adam Smith those couple of centuries ago.

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