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“The obsessive tormentor who made professors’ lives miserable
It didn’t matter if she knew you — if you were a professor and Asian American, you were a potential target.”
“The creator economy is fragmented and chaotic. Talent manager Ursus Magana can (almost) make sense of it, with a frenetic formula for gaming the algorithms.”
“He’s one of the first faith-based coordinators for Texas inmates facing the death penalty. He’s scheduled to be executed this week.”
“Throughout the lower 48, recreational bush pilots are using their nimble planes and social media influence to spread the word about bold frontiers in flight.”
The exclamation point attracts enormous (and undue) amounts of flak for its unabashed claim to presence in the name of emotion which some unkind souls interpret as egotistical attention-seeking.”
“Squeamishness around meat is embedded into the English language — and by extension, Western attitudes towards the realities of meat.”
“I evacuated from Yellowknife this summer. Coming home was the hardest part.”
“At the foot of the Rockies, the operators of a dude ranch retreat are blending cowboy culture and group therapy.”
“Though the world wouldn’t catch on until disaster struck, a tight-knit community of seafarers, explorers, and bold submariners worried for years that Stockton Rush’s OceanGate implosion was all but guaranteed.”
“A lifetime after the Holocaust, a few of its perpetrators somehow remain at large.”
