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Greetings and welcome to the Monday, December 2nd, 24 edition of the Daily Article podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article, written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Did you hear about the Stowaway who snuck onto a Delta flight from New York to Paris, hidden various lavatories during the flight, and was only detected as the plane was about to land?

Like her, we are all stowaways on this planet. Like her, none of us purchase our ticket. But unlike her, many of us think we're piloting the plane.

Like British lawmakers who recently approved a bill authorizing euthanasia, we think we are in

charge of the way our lives end. Like college football fans who want to be buried at their

favorite stadiums, we even seek to control the location of our remains after

we're gone. Some of us will spend $12,000 just to change the color of our eyes and vast sums

in surgeries, medications, clothing, and jewelry to otherwise alter our appearance. But our, quote,

unquote, plane seldom cooperates with our attempts to pilot it.

At least 335 people died in the five hurricanes that made landfall in the U.S. mainland this year.

Lake effects snow pummeled the Great Lakes region over the weekend.

MIT Technology Review warns that the risk of a bird flu pandemic is rising.

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