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Happy New Year!

Odessa, Ukraine. 1973

When I was growing up©, I used to calculate how old I will be in the year 2000. This was my Mayan Calendar of sorts — the year 2000 was so far away and the double-digit age of 31 seemed so unbelievably huge that I didn’t bother to look beyond the year [...]

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Don’t Say “Cheese”!

One of the things that strikes a person who comes in a contact with American people is a fake, disingenuous, completely reflectory smile. In most cultures to smile is defined in the dictionary as “to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the [...]