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The Stone Mirror of War
Moral obtuseness led us into the delta in Vietnam—and later the deserts of the Middle East. By John Medaille.
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The One-Stop Smuggling Town
Welcome to Altar, Sonora, Mexico, the Wal-Mart of human trafficking. By Brian Anderson and Camilo Salas.
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Learning To Mourn In My Father’s Country
After my brother died and my father was partially paralyzed, my family traveled 7,000 miles in search of an old home, a new house, and the things we’d lost on the road in between. By Reggie Ugwu.
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Animal spirits
The more we learn about the emotions shared by all mammals, the more we must rethink our own human intelligence. By Stephen T Asma.
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Shaking Hands with the Hilldebeest
“Can a felt-encased Hilldebeest bring healing warmth, if not a certain blonde radiance, to the national body politic? Will she be able to reverse the terrible effects of global freezing, especially in Old Palo Alto? Can she help an ever-growing underclass – those forced to serve the plutocracy with devilled egg-things on trays – recover from juvenile pique and hypothermia? Will she legalise human-Schnauzer-beast-dancing?” By Terry Castle.
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Hot Afternoons in Armenia’s Frozen Zone
“‘Don’t worry. I have a good canister made in Italy. It doesn’t burst, it just rips,’ Ruslan told me. He noticed me looking at eight corroded and scarred canisters stacked under the belly of a 70’s Soviet truck about two feet away from my face. ‘But those, on the other hand, are old and very dangerous. If one of those canisters blows up, all of them will.’” By Yasha Levine. (Aug. 2006)
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Djibouti Is Hot
How a forgotten sandlot of a country became a hub of international power games. By Monte Reel.
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Why I Bought Four Syrian Children Off a Beirut Street
I confess to having recently purchased four children near Ramlet el Baida beach from a stressed-out Syrian woman. I am not sure if she was what she said or if she was a member of one of the human trafficking gangs that operate widely these days in Lebanon selling Syrian children or vulnerable adult women... By Franklin Lamb.
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Last Chance, Amigo? You Can Never Be Too Late in Havana
The pope has been there, Obama is there this week and the Rolling Stones are arriving soon. Everyone wants a chance to see Socialism one last time before it dies. But what is it like to visit Cuba for a former citizen of East Germany? By Jochen-Martin Gutsch.
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In the Land of Missing Persons
Two families, two bodies, and a wilderness of secrets. By Alex Tizon.
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Sin Will Find You Out
Megan Galbraith retraces the footsteps of her birth mother, who gave her up for adoption at nineteen years old in 1966 in New York City.
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Emerald Sea
The making and unmaking of a half-billion-dollar treasure hunt. By Robert P. Baird.
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Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard
“Annie Dillard wasn’t sure she was going to like me, she says, not long after I arrive at her cabin near Cripple Creek, Virginia, in the dark vastness of a November evening.” By John Freeman.
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Welcome to the land that no country wants
In 2014, an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of African land to make his daughter a princess. But Jack Shenker had got there first – and learned that states and borders are volatile and delicate things.
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The Gris-gris Wrestlers of Senegal
As evening falls in a packed stadium, heat still radiating from the ground, I am witness to how traditional Senegalese wrestling — with its mystical “gris-gris” rituals, intense drumming, and trance-like dance — has evolved into a high profile, superstar sport. By Christian Bobst.
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Memphis Burning
The horrific lynching of Ell Persons was national news in 1917, then forgotten. Nearly 100 years later, his story is coming back to life. By Martha Park.
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Coolie Women Are in Demand Here
“Grierson concluded that the female emigrants consisted of four groups: prostitutes, the wives of men who had already been to the colonies and had come back to fetch them, destitute widows with no one to take pity on them, and ‘married women who have made a slip, and who have either absconded from their husband’s house with or without a lover, or who have been turned out of doors by their husbands.’ The widows were blameless. The colonies would gladly take them.” By Gaiutra Bahadur. (Spr. ’11)
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Italy’s fascinating Festival of the Snake-Catchers
“Obviously the people here aren’t sophisticated, otherwise they wouldn’t be hanging snakes on a statue, but they’re the real salt of the earth, and the food is fantastic.” By Richard Grant.
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The man who could stop planes
Stuck in Johannesburg alone, Amanda Jones meets a true human chameleon who teaches her a lesson she’ll take to her grave.
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Sniffing Out The Truth About Hawai’i’s Orgasm-Inducing Mushroom
One woman's quest to find the fabled fungus said to elicit orgasms in women by scent alone. Is the mysterious Hawaiian mushroom just a myth? By Christie Wilcox. (Feb. 14)
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