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I have been writing this column for almost nine years now but I still have not figured out why my column appears in the Business Section.

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"De Rerum Natura" is taken from a poem by Lucretius (99 to 55 BC), which translates as "On the Nature of Things." It was a poem that offered so many inspiring reasons on why and how we can stop living in fear and ignorance of the unknown and start understanding the world, ourselves. [DatePublished] => 2005-12-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249681 [AuthorName] => DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283183 [Title] => Two rivers of thought [Summary] => Full woman, fleshly apple, hot moon

thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light,

what obscure brilliance opens between your columns?

what ancient night does a man touch with his senses?
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I have been writing this column for almost nine years now but I still have not figured out why my column appears in the Business Section.

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(First of two parts)
"De Rerum Natura" is taken from a poem by Lucretius (99 to 55 BC), which translates as "On the Nature of Things." It was a poem that offered so many inspiring reasons on why and how we can stop living in fear and ignorance of the unknown and start understanding the world, ourselves. [DatePublished] => 2005-12-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249681 [AuthorName] => DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283183 [Title] => Two rivers of thought [Summary] => Full woman, fleshly apple, hot moon

thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light,

what obscure brilliance opens between your columns?

what ancient night does a man touch with his senses?
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