Every “ship at sea is its own island,” but not all of them come equipped with a zipline, 40 restaurants and bars, and a laser-tag facility.
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The Last Resort
Private clinics in Germany sell cancer patients hope — and mixed results — at exorbitant prices.
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Walking the Line in the Bekaa Valley
A traveling crew of slackliners is trying to bring a moment of balance to young Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
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The Lost Kids on the Line
In Lebanon, not far from the Syrian border, a crew of volunteer slackliners tries to bring fleeting moments of magic into displaced children’s lives.
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A Storyteller, Unbecoming
On showing, telling, and finding one’s way as a literary writer of color.
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quotes
To Be a Lexicographer Is to Surrender to Folly
On the never-ending, unattainable quest to create the perfect English dictionary.
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Inside the OED: Can the World’s Biggest Dictionary Survive the Internet?
On the centuries-long quest to create the perfect, all-encompassing English dictionary.
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The Unexpected Reemergence of an Elusive Strain of Rice
Hill rice was supposed to be extinct, until a South Carolina chef stumbled on it — in Trinidad.
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The Great Stink
It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.
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Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking
Historians of African-diaspora cooking have considered hill rice a mythical, long-extinct staple. Then, one of them stumbled on it while walking in the Trinidadian countryside.