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A frontier encounter

Michel Cabanac and Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac (Laval): Hedonicity and Memory of Odors. Laura Jones (LSU): Under the Bus: A Rhetorical Reading of Barack Obama's "More Perfect Union". From the Journal of Law and Family Studies, Mary Kate Kearney (Widener): Identifying Sperm and Egg Donors: Opening Pandora's Box. An interview with Julie Sedivy and Greg Carlson, authors of Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You. A review of Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Here are 6 reasons the Police Gazette is the craziest magazine. Reclaiming a sense of the sacred: Marilynne Robinson contemplates religion, science, art, and the miraculous. Time piece: The battle to keep precise time is a frontier encounter between quantum physics and technological know-how. A look at five common misconceptions about the Middle Ages. Triumph of the willpower: John Tierney on what marshmallow-eating kids can teach us about political sex scandals, the financial crisis, replacing God with technology, and clearing out our inboxes.