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OP-ED: The Titan disaster shows the terror and allure of the sea

The submersible Titan is now confirmed lost.There’s a tragic poetry to the debris of the vessel being found 1,700 feet from the bow of the Titanic, the watchword for disaster at sea that has been the object of fascination since it went down in the North Atlantic in 1912.There have been lots ...

Summertime and the living is …

It’s summer! You knew that (I hope).Summer has always been my favorite part of the year.Why? Because it’s not winter.Teachers, school books, and overcoats were off the agenda in summer. They were replaced by bikes and skinned knees and overheated, dawn-to-dusk pursuits of adventure.(Heck! ...

The summer wind comes blowing in

Ah, summer. Long time arriving, you’re over all too quickly.Summer, in brief, is ritual, which suits me just fine, since I’m a creature of habit anyway. (Proof: I’ve eaten the same breakfast for years now. I watch three or four episodes of Seinfeld nearly every day. I sit in the same ...

America has a housing problem

Earlier this week, the business magazine Fortune reported on a young Philadelphia-area couple that has been looking for a house in southern New Jersey for the last two years, and have had absolutely no luck.They have come up empty-handed even with a budget of $600,000, outdone in one furious ...