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Grab a cuppa joe and visit Encarta's coffee klatch -- your place to wax eloquent, grouse or otherwise muse about Encarta's quizzes, columns, top-10 lists, Bill Nye the Science Guy and more. Get a double shot of brainy fun.
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It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
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