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More than that, some are betting that AI and robotics will be the salve to our nation’s debt troubles.

For him, their beauty is a salve — an opportunity to abandon reality and cast himself in a role that doesn’t actually exist for him.

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The Henry Murray Stage upstairs at the Matrix Theatre has been transformed into an adolescent hideaway, where music and literature are the only salves for alienated brooding.

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His explosive row with President Donald Trump - and the very public airing of his dirty White House laundry - suggests Musk's changing priorities might not quite be the salve they had been hoping for.

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Flanagan is strictly interested in what futility does to the human soul — and how it can be a salve, too.

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