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Dear Reader, First, a little piece of housekeeping: If you've been loving this newsletter and want to recommend it to others, I've set up a page where they can see past newsletters to get the "flavor" and subscribe for themselves. You can also revisit old "issues" of the newsletter at this same URL. Newsetter Archive & Subscribe Form Now onto this week's "meat": As I write this newsletter, I am typically seated at my little desk in my home office, which has only windows near the ceiling...