At a town hall in Beaufort, the sign-in sheets that usually get a few signatures per event were crumpled from the compression of so many pens.

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Cows are also jammed together in enormous pens, many of them sick from feed that violates a digestive system built for grass.

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Now, Kurtzman says, many purveyors of high-end goods, including Rolex and Mont Blanc pens, "are still in denial" about the Internet.

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What caused so many influential, left-of-center policy leaders to take up their pens and blurb a book so exuberantly?

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