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Saving Gorillas In A War Zone
Congo’s gorilla doctors hike deep into forests swarming with rebels and genocidaires, risking their lives to treat the endangered mountain apes.
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Sleeping upon a mountain: A poetic and exceptional account of the explorations and essence of the Himalayas
Mukul Mangalik reviews ‘Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime’ by Stephen Alter.
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In Welsh Patagonia
After years of idle dreams, Jasper Rees visits the valleys in Argentina that have been an outpost of Wales for 150 years.
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Displaced in the Dominican Republic
A country strips 210,000 of citizenship. By Rachel Nolan.
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Black Hole Hunters
Aiming to make the first portrait of the hungry monster at the center of our galaxy, astronomers built “a telescope as big as the world.”
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Welcome to Dog World!
It was Blair Braverman’s dream job: living on a glacier in the remote Alaskan wilderness, driving a team of huskies through the snow, showing tourists the real Alaska. Then one day things got too real.
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The Root of All Things
Halfway through our hour-long Skype call, Carlos Tanner warns me that he is going to “cross over”. He means that our conversation is about to leap from things that make sense in this world—how his new baby is sleeping, how many students are enrolling in his school—into things that only make sense if …
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Life and Death on the Avocado Trail
A fearless Mexican-American cook routinely travels 2,000 miles, driving through a drug war and slipping out of kidnappers’ fingers, all in the name of a decent mole poblano for her New York customers.
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Luxury Living in a Failed State
Luanda, Angola—not Moscow, Tokyo, or Hong Kong—has become the world’s most expensive city for expats.
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Fly Trans-Love Airways (1967)
This story originally appeared in The New Yorker and is excerpted from After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction, a new collection from Renata Adler.
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Off Diamond Head
To be thirteen, with a surfboard, in Hawaii. By WIlliam Finnegan.
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Ap Bu Nho
A Remembrance for Memorial Day
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In Sanaa
By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Psychologically, there are two L.A.’s. One is where Naomi Watts gets to be the sunny aspiring actress Betty and have beautiful teeth and a gorgeous lesbian relationship with an amnesiac Laura Harring. The other is where Naomi Watts is Diane, with fucked-up teeth, an unrequited romantic obsession, and a bullet in her head. They’re both the same movie, and none of it makes any sense. But it says something about how the city sees itself: things are one way, or suddenly another.
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Green Arabia
By Maciej Cegłowski
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The long drive to end a pregnancy
On the 407 miles of open road between home and a Montana abortion clinic, a woman has a lot of time to think about how she got from there to here
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In Flight
En route from London to Tokyo, a pilot’s-eye view of life in the sky.
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The War Nerd: Escape from East Timor (Part Two)
I saw it now, nosing through the gate like a shark sniffing around a tank. It made for us, but slowly, slowly. Time slows down, they say. So did the van. It cut across our bows and came very slowly to an almost-stop. The left side-window went down...
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Searching for Clues to Mystery of Ancient Americans
Among the things they left behind are beautiful ruins, a gorgeously woven basket and a nearly impossible to get to granary on a cliff.
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A burnt-out fairground
A selection from David Pryce-Jones's memoir reveals the literary world, anti-Semitism, and changing politics of twentieth-century Europe.
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