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    The Empire State Can Rise Again

    By Jonathan Cohen and John Giardino
    Upstate cities like Buffalo and Rochester were once powerhouses. They can be again, if politicians encourage local entrepreneurship.

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    What an E-Reader Can't Download

    By Danny Heitman
    The books on my shelf bring back memories of the places I've been and the people I've met.

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    The Shuttle Was a Dud But Space Is Still Our Destiny

    By Lawrence Krauss
    NASA failed to deliver its primary goal: cheap human space travel. Next time we need to go farther and learn a lot more.

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    Plane Crazy

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    By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
    How American Airlines won the lottery.

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    Notable & Quotable

    Syndicated columnist Linda Chavez on unemployment benefits.

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    Five Best: Taking Fiction Out to the Ballgame

    America's pastime has a way of producing vivid literary characters: struggling minor-leaguers, foul-mouthed sluggers and obsessive aficionados. Allen Barra names his line-up of best baseball fiction, with Ring Lardner leading off.

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    An Empire of the Mediterranean

    There was more to Carthage than her defeat by Rome. Adrian Goldsworthy reviews "Carthage Must be Destroyed."

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    For Love of Laissez-Faire

    Through the letters of Frédéric Bastiat shines the most charming economist you have ever met, says James Grant.

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    When the Music Stopped

    Preoccupied with the sounds and ideas of the past, contemporary pop music is fast becoming stale. Michael Azerrad reviews "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past."

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    China puts the squeeze on Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators, but the island could still reform the political landscape.

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    Now or Never for Chris Christie?

    Speculation that Mr. Christie is weighing a presidential bid continues, but several sources say that Mr. Christie's political shelf-life is limited.

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    A Most Revealing Face

    How do you bring to life a monument of someone who has been dead for more than 40 years? That was the challenge Auguste Rodin faced in creating the monument to Balzac.

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    'Another Earth' Orbits Eccentrically, Creates Star

    The cosmic overtones in "Another Earth" are less important than the emergence of a fine young actress named Brit Marling. Meanwhile, "Captain America" goes bang! pow! phfffft...; and a complex past trumps the banal present in "Sarah's Key."

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    The Family and Its Discontents

    There's nothing like a family funeral to bring drama to life.

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    Therapy as Shock Treatment

    Lisa Kudrow's self-obsessed psychotherapist treats her patients without remorse—or credentials—in "Web Therapy."

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    The Snare of Perfectionism: When Artists Aim Too High

    It's one of the many curses afflicting the tortured genius.

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    The Ruins of Afghanistan's 'Monument Valley'

    Bamiyan Valley once hosted one of the world's largest Buddhist monastery complexes. In one of humanity's most notorious cases of art vandalism, a Taliban decree led to the destruction of Bamiyan's relics, including a 181-foot Buddha carved out of a stone cliff.

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    A Family Wired for Thrills

    Roberto Navas Yovany and his three sons come from a long line of circus performers. They're part of a headlining high-wire act in the new Cirque du Soleil show, "Zarkana."

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    Harmonious Times for Good Old War

    To catch the band in concert is a joyful thing. But now that its season has been unexpectedly cut short, it's back to the studio for Good Old War.

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