Scattered around the Laventura sat empty businesses, their doors padlocked, vines crawling over them, as if to reclaim them for nature, while on the street loitered a fleet of people pushing grocery carts.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

And if we set aside the pay-as-you-go nature of Medicare and pretend it really is an insurance program, your payroll tax contributions will end up covering only about one third of your personal tax-financed spending over your lifetime.

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What concerned me most I think was the nature of our economy and how the American Dream seemed as if it was slipping away for too many people.

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If we are conscious, as our species seems to have become, then nature is conscious.

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Her research also finds that the nature, as well as the frequency, of violent crime would also be radically altered if the cap were removed.

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If wine is, as we believe, a subjective, subtle, and experiential thing, then by nature it is unquantifiable.

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What today has revealed is that - as the contradictory nature of those words suggest - panics are rarely slow, steady and controlled, particularly if a minister goes off his script and the media latches onto a narrative about a government that is making mistakes and looking out of touch.

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We are acting as if we do not see or understand what is going on, although in my view the major resources of nature, that ability of nature to engage in self-cleansing, is nearly exhausted.

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