It’s a humbling, maybe even humiliating experience when your car runs out of gas. Having to walk to a gas station, trusting there’s a gas can that you can borrow, ought to be lesson enough not to let it happen again....

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Water, water, every where,/Nor any drop of drink That’s a line from a 220-year-old poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge called “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In it, a sailor is surrounded by salt water that he can’t...

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Wedding plans can make life plenty stressful under the best of circumstances, whether they involve choosing the bride’s gown, winnowing an invite list, or deciding on a menu. But at least the planner has lots of say in...

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