Since anyone in the press gallery can see the glow of i-phones and i-pads as MPs tweet and e-mail through debates, that last one is more a case of catching up with reality than breaking through into the 21st century.

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We put 6, 000 papers on the street each week, and after staying up most of the night Wednesday, I would come in late Thursday and bask in the glow: townspeople stopped by to chat, bring announcements, and drop an occasional compliment on the editorial.

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But that glow faded as the weeks wore on and I dealt with more students exactly like her: tourists who saw tennis as no more of a priority than a theme-park ride.

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When I woke up this morning, I was just a writer and tech investor, tucked behind the warm glow of my 27-inch Apple monitor.

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If I were embarrassed, on a dark night you could find your way by the glow of my face.

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I, for one, am glad they failed, since for all of the soft glow we have in this country around our notion of the family farmer, farming was and can still be a brutal, dawn to dusk endeavor that never really rewards the work people put into it.

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In the mirror we stood there, she in her shimmering green blouse and I with a glow of sunburn on my face.

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As I reported earlier, Scotland did badly at creating new jobs, and its positive glow around unemployment is because the size of the labour market is falling.

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