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PublishedMarch 11, 2012
The order and the disorder
If I turn my head slightly to the left, I can see it from here.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: Ego 1, Yoga 0
A review of William Broad's new book, "The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards" recently appeared in these pages. It seems to lean heavily on the risks part.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: Consider actors as you zip
Last night you taped your favorite shows. You had other things to do and games to watch before bed. You taped "Glee," "Modern Family," "Hawaii 5-0" and a movie, and you've settled in to watch them. In the middle of the story, up pops that annoying commercial. So you pick up that new remote and zip forward. Whooosh! We all do that. We're busy people for whom instant gratification isn't fast enough.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: Kodak’s final moment
August 1941. Petty Officer Matt Devine stood behind the family’s peeling green lawn bench, his hands behind him. He was on a short leave and anxious to get out of this hot backyard and over to Mary Viellas’ before he had to catch his train.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: My first love? Think Twinkie
One day at recess in the school yard at St. Mary and Joseph Catholic School, I fell down and seriously skinned my knee. Everyone laughed and ran off, except for Mary Lister.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: No snow? Know snow
"You call this snow?" he shouts down from the top of his truck.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: A new goodbye; a long goodbye
She stands at the gate watching her son board the bus. She talks to him on her cellphone. She is in her late 70s, maybe a well-kept, fit 80. He is seated now and she can't see him, but he's there on her cell, where they keep up the conversation they started at breakfast. They continued in the car probably, going over the little things.
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PublishedDecember 24, 2011
J.P. DEVINE: Making it home for the holidays
They're coming. They're coming home from every point on the compass: Kabul, Berlin, Korea. They're coming from Los Angeles, Chicago, El Paso, Eagle Pass and Tampico.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2011
J.P. DEVINE: Angels and egg nog
They always start when I'm decorating the tree. I've got the ornament box out. I've poured myself some fat-free low-cal organic egg nog, and I turn the flat screen on for some Christmas music, and there it is, the first of them, the weepy-every-year-at-this-time-traditional Christmas movies. It's 4 in the afternoon, and it's as dark as 9 at night, as I try to ignore them. That's impossible.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2011
J.P. DEVINE: The wait to retire shortens
There it is right on the front page of the Los Angeles Times: “Many Americans will have to work until they’re 80.”
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