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Dear Prudence: On Halloween, poor kids come to trick-or-treat in my neighborhood.

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Kids From Poorer Neighborhoods Keep Trick-or-Treating in Mine. Kids From Poorer Neighborhoods Keep Trick-or-Treating in Mine. Advice on manners and morals. Oct 23 2014 6:00 AM. Kids from poorer neighborhoods keep coming to trick-or-treat in mine. Do I have to give them candy? Photo by Teresa Castracane. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Thinkstock. Get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week; click. To sign up. Please send your questions for publication to. Questions may be edited.). Ldquo;If...

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Airbnb gentrification: How the sharing economy drives up housing prices.

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How Airbnb Forces Up Housing Prices. How Airbnb Forces Up Housing Prices. Commentary about business and finance. Feb 13 2014 8:08 AM. More Guests, Empty Houses. Airbnb is great for tourists. Is it great for the housing market? Welcome to Marfa, where the housing market is tightening. Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images. At a hospitality conference last year. “For us to win, no one has to lose.”. Combined. It didn’t take long for the original hosts of the so-called sharing economy. To find themselves com...

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Tencent's Wechat: Worldwide Internet users are voluntarily submitting to the Great Firewall.

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People Around the World Are Voluntarily Submitting to China’s Great Firewall. Why? People Around the World Are Voluntarily Submitting to China’s Great Firewall. Why? Learn more about Future Tense ». The Citizen's Guide to the Future. Jan 6 2015 10:00 AM. People Around the World Are Voluntarily Submitting to China’s Great Firewall. Why? Photo by Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images. Do they willingly or automatically turn over all data to the Ministry of Public Security or State Internet Information Office? Final...

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The best American wall map: David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America”

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How One Guy in Oregon Made the Best U.S. Map You’ll Ever See. How One Guy in Oregon Made the Best U.S. Map You’ll Ever See. Arts, entertainment, and more. Jan 2 2012 7:38 AM. The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See. Made by one guy in Oregon. Annual Best of Show award went to a map created by Imus Geographics—which is basically one dude named David Imus working in a farmhouse outside Eugene, Ore. It has place names. Political boundaries. Lakes, rivers, highways. I’m here to tell...

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What Ph.D. students really have to fear.

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What Ph.D. students really have to fear. What Ph.D. students really have to fear. The search for better economic policy. May 29 2006 7:12 AM. Roach College, U.S.A. What Ph.D. students really have to fear. Graduate students tend to be paranoid about aspects of their careers that are largely under their control: Will I ever finish my studies? Will I sufficiently impress my adviser? Are jobs in the lower reaches of the profession staging areas for later success? Or are they more like the Roach Motel. How pr...

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How to treat a four-hour erection.

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How to treat a four-hour erection. How to treat a four-hour erection. Answers to your questions about the news. May 31 2005 6:49 PM. You've Got One of Those Four-Hour Erections . One pill makes you bigger and one pill makes you small . At least 38 men who have taken Viagra. Have gone blind, and the drug's manufacturer said. Daniel Engber is a columnist for Slate. Call your doctor and be very, very afraid. Though the makers of erectile dysfunction drugs list prolonged. As a potential side effect. Spongy t...

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Seymour Hersh interview: On his Bin Laden story, the New Yorker, journalism, and his own bad mood.

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I Am Not Backing Off Anything I Said : An Interview With Seymour Hersh. I Am Not Backing Off Anything I Said : An Interview With Seymour Hersh. Opinions about events beyond our borders. May 13 2015 6:10 PM. I Am Not Backing Off Anything I Said. An interview with Seymour Hersh. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh accepts the Lennon-Ono Grant for Peace at the Second Biennial Awards at the United Nations on Oct. 7, 2004, in New York. In a blockbuster 10,000-word story for the. This week, longtime.

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Obama’s stadium plan would limit public financing of sports complexes. Could that end the war over sports teams?

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The War Between Cities and Suburbs Over Pro Sports Teams Is Getting Ridiculous. Could This Plan End It? The War Between Cities and Suburbs Over Pro Sports Teams Is Getting Ridiculous. Could This Plan End It? Commentary about business and finance. March 17 2015 4:30 PM. How to Stop the Stadium Wars. Cities and suburbs compete for the privilege of wasting millions on new sports complexes. Obama has an idea to end the madness. Photo by Mike Ledford/Getty Images. Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate.

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The Federal Reserve comes (almost) clean about all the crazy stuff it did in 2008.

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The Federal Reserve comes (almost) clean about all the crazy stuff it did in 2008. The Federal Reserve comes (almost) clean about all the crazy stuff it did in 2008. Commentary about business and finance. Dec 2 2010 6:50 PM. The Federal Reserve comes (almost) clean about all the crazy stuff it did in 2008. The Federal Reserve has made public. First things first: Why did the notoriously shy Fed post the detailed data this week? But now with the recovery under way and bank profits healthy again the Fed has...

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Tea Party, IRS: Will the IRS’s profiling of Tea Party groups convince conservatives that all kinds of profiling are wrong?

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Will the IRS's Tea Party Profiling Convince Conservatives That All Profiling Is Wrong? Will the IRS's Tea Party Profiling Convince Conservatives That All Profiling Is Wrong? Who's winning, who's losing, and why. May 20 2013 7:04 PM. Profiling Is Great . Except When You Do It to Me. Will the IRS's scrutiny of Tea Party groups convince conservatives that all kinds of profiling are wrong? Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters. So what do you do? In an effort to prevent crime. All these efforts rely on the same in...