People tell me that they can lose hours on YouTube. I don’t get it. Sure, there are millions of good things there. But they are buried among squillions of not such good things. I seldom find anything of stunning interest just by goofing around. So I was pleased, astonished, surprised and delighted t...

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I need to chase down the full-length version of this movie. Not because pastry is my thing; it isn’t. But because documentary is.

1. "You can't wake a person who's pretending to be asleep." Jason Clay thinks differently about sustainability.

   2. str_replace("Negroes", "Women", "Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words.") Sheryl WuDunn on gender equality.

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I forgot to mention in the account of my ice cream odyssey that as a public service I had created a Google Map of all the places on the original list. I hope it helps someone find what they are looking for.

View Gelaterie in a larger map.

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A man needs a purpose to get the most out of life. My purpose last Saturday was to sample ice creams. Not any old ice creams, but those recommended by Elizabeth Minchilli a couple of months ago. ¹ My original plan was to visit all the establishments she mentioned and compare my impressions with...

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