Recently, proprietor Jeff Smith and I sat in the back of City Bakery in New York, sampling the wine out of paper cups.

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The phone call came late one August afternoon as my older sister Gracie and I sat out on the back porch shucking the sweet corn into the big tin buckets.

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Once I was done pinching, pulling and zooming, I simply sat the phone back down.

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"That's when I sat back and said, I just started a conversation about global warming and climate change and the parts per million of CO2 in our atmosphere on a NASCAR forum, " she said.

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And there are intriguing offerings such as the Sound Chair: I sat back in what felt like a dentist's recliner and put on earphones attached to an iPod on the arm of the chair.

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And at 10 the next morning, I went back with a friend, bought one, and we sat on a nearby bench, ripped it apart with our fingers and ate every bit.

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When Gilani and I sat down a few weeks ago to discuss the current state of the markets, it was an interesting back and forth about the inroads of high frequency trading and algorithms.

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