How the World Works is going to take a break for a few days while I attend to personal family business.
Hiatus explanation
A break for personal reasons
Published November 6, 2008 12:00PM (EST)
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By Andrew Leonard
Andrew Leonard is a staff writer at Salon. On Twitter, @koxinga21.
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