Most of us know the reasons: It helps us regain a sense of control, it shakes up our sense of time in a good way, it acts as a kind of therapy, promoting flexible and imaginative thinking and stimulating new ideas, and it can expand our cultural horizons.

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They started thinking about how to expand nationally and bought several companies in Brazil in the 1990s.

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Gola scored 22 points in La Salle's win over Dayton in the NIT title game at the Garden, capping a season in which he averaged 17.4 points and 17.1 rebounds and helped expand people's thinking about how basketball could be played.

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Images expand the range of thinking and might yield new kinds of written expression once software makes it easier and more natural to work photos (or the writer's own sketches) into the text.

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