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" While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries. "
Mary Pilon
Parents
Football
Children
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" Most major races, including the New York City Marathon, require runners to provide photo identification when picking up a bib. Most provide bibs only a few days before the race, shortening the window in which someone could copy a bib. "
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" As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't only law. Medical schools often have committees to evaluate cases and mitigating factors but are generally reluctant to admit ex-inmates. "
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" To drive a semi-truck, a driver needs a commercial driver's license. While formal training isn't required, most drivers enroll in a program to help prepare them for the written and practical exams in their states. "
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" Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup. "
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" Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer. "
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She
" If bingeing on bad emergency-room-themed television has taught me anything, it's that crisis situations bring out the best and worst in people. "
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" The America's Cup World Series was created in 2011, with an eye toward conjuring more off-cycle interest and marketing opportunities. It coincided with the ascent of foiling catamarans, a type of boat that goes faster and looks almost Photoshopped, the way it practically floats in air when it races. "
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" Wall Street trading floors have long been seen as bastions of testosterone that rewarded, literally, those with sharp elbows who could throw a punch. "
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Wall
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" Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity. "
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" The phenomena of taking photos and sharing them isn't new, but with Instagram being mobile, both have become cheaper and faster, producing the instant gratification of knowing how our shots look in our palms. "
Mary Pilon
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New
" Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app's filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble the Polaroids of yore by casting them literally in a different, more nostalgic light. "
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Travel
Time
" The greatest obstacle in 'Tetris' is time and one's own ability to navigate it - kind of like life itself. "
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Life
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" For years, women in India were largely discouraged from participating in high-level sports - and, unless the women were wealthy, good facilities were hard to come by, anyway. "
Mary Pilon
Sports
Years
Women
" The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process. "
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Training
Beginning
" I've often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don't have many old things, and we don't really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn. "
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Old
Know
" Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well. "
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American
Run
Sports
" Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people. "
Mary Pilon
Alone
Creative
Time
" By the middle of the century, retirement culture - exemplified by timeshares in Florida, the golf industry, and AARP membership - was booming. Americans, it turned out, were pretty good at figuring out how not to do anything in their twilight years. "
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Pretty
Culture
Golf
" Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy. "
Mary Pilon
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Too Much
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" Historically, companies haven't hesitated to end their relationships with professional athletes amid scandals. "
Mary Pilon
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End
Professional
" Instagram influencers project a specific, highly crafted image of perfection - one that is largely white, thin, and psychologically Zen. Critics argue that this boom, in turn, has helped fuel excessive self-promotion in which we post about only the good moments rather than reality - essentially, a distorted echo chamber. "
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Moments
Good
Turn
" I remember, often, when you tell people you're doing a book about board games, they think you're totally nuts. And that might be warranted. But I feel like if we can't get the story of Monopoly right... what hope is there for anything else? "
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" If workplaces that enlist happiness consultants really care about worker satisfaction, why not offer better maternity and paternity policies? Daycare options? They could advise managers to stop calling workers to come in on weekends or expect them to answer emails late on weeknights. "
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Better
Stop
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" While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world. "
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American
World
" Recognizing chronic sadness may encourage someone to reach out to a friend, family member, or counselor rather than concealing the distress. "
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Someone
Friend
Family
" Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers. "
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Computers
Back
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" Throughout the Great Recession of 2008, the average 401(k) balance lost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of value. Nobody was more harmed than baby boomers or recent retirees, who, unlike younger workers, didn't have the time for the market to rebound or were no longer contributing and therefore unable to invest when stocks were cheap. "
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Lost
Balance
Great
" Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks. "
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Focus
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" Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you. "
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You
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" I think that when you talk to people about Monopoly, they love talking about their memories associated with it. And for me, I'm the same way. I mean, when I think about Monopoly, I think of my family playing at the holidays. "
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People
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