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From Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, which will be published in December by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Percentage change since 2002 in the portion of U.S. high school seniors taking the ACT who received perfect scores ...

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Number of different forms of torture the Syrian government is suspected of having used during the country’s civil war : 72 Factor by which women are more likely than men… ...

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Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a ...