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  "thread": {
    "id": 4652,
    "subject": "\"Backs to the future\"",
    "messages": 5,
    "voices": 4,
    "first": "2006-06-13T11:02:10+00:00",
    "last": "2006-07-06T15:44:37+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<BAY101-F19B6FF3A8AC0881ADCF2A6C38C0@phx.gbl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Machin",
        "address": "jfmachin at hotmail.com"
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      "date": "2006-06-13T11:02:10+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Backs to the future\"",
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          "text": "The following article might be of interest to the list (for obvious \nreasons!)...\n\nhttp://www.physorg.com/news69338070.html"
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    {
      "message_id": "<4490E324.60808@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2006-06-15T04:33:40+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Backs to the future\"",
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          "text": "James Machin wrote:\nThe following article might be of interest to the list (for obvious \nreasons!)...\n\nhttp://www.physorg.com/news69338070.html"
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          "text": "I've seen this claimed for classical Attic cultures as well; IIRC as \nrecently as \"It's Greek to Me\" (Paperback)\nby Michael Macrone, Tom Lulevitch"
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\n< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >"
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      "message_id": "<69119FC3-36FD-48B8-9F2B-81A54C5F8DB3@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Transentient",
        "address": "transentient at gmail.com"
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      "date": "2006-06-15T13:11:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Backs to the future\"",
      "in_reply_to": "<4490E324.60808@io.com>",
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          "text": "On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:\nJames Machin wrote:"
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          "text": "The following article might be of interest to the list (for obvious\nreasons!)...\n\nhttp://www.physorg.com/news69338070.html"
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          "text": "I've seen this claimed for classical Attic cultures as well; IIRC as\nrecently as \"It's Greek to Me\" (Paperback)\nby Michael Macrone, Tom Lulevitch"
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          "text": "There has been a big resurgence of popularity of the Sapir-Whorf  \nhypothesis among anthropology types lately. "
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      "message_id": "<44923938.6040404@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
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      "date": "2006-06-16T04:53:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Backs to the future\"",
      "in_reply_to": "<69119FC3-36FD-48B8-9F2B-81A54C5F8DB3@gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Transentient wrote:\nOn Jun 15, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:"
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          "text": "James Machin wrote:"
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          "text": "The following article might be of interest to the list (for obvious\nreasons!)...\n\nhttp://www.physorg.com/news69338070.html"
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          "text": "I've seen this claimed for classical Attic cultures as well; IIRC as\nrecently as \"It's Greek to Me\" (Paperback)\nby Michael Macrone, Tom Lulevitch"
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          "text": "There has been a big resurgence of popularity of the Sapir-Whorf  \nhypothesis among anthropology types lately. "
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          "text": "I think this is more in Skinner's area, myself. Certainly Greeks and \nRomans were conditioned to see the past as a place of glory and names \nforever remembered, with the future a mysterious, unseen place from \nwhich fate and misfortune could strike unforseen, as if stabbing from \nbehind."
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\n< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >"
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      "message_id": "<1150.66.241.92.147.1152200677.squirrel@brunians.org>",
      "from": {
        "name": "brunians at brunians.org",
        "address": "brunians at brunians.org"
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      "date": "2006-07-06T15:44:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"Backs to the future\"",
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          "text": "It makes perfect sense once you think of it.\n\nWe can see the past, and we cannot see the future. Might as well have our\nbacks to it.\n\n\njosh\n\n____"
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          "text": "The following article might be of interest to the list (for obvious\nreasons!)...\n\nhttp://www.physorg.com/news69338070.html\n\n\n_______________________________________________"
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