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1 My father disappeared at 6:30 p.m. on a Sunday in November. Since then, I’ve been fascinated by disappearances. 2 No one else I know has ever disappeared. People have sometimes gone missing. People have sometimes died. But no one else has vanished into thin air. 3 I once read a newspaper article about a …
All María José Coni and Marina Menegazzo wanted to do was travel. Like many 20-somethings dream of doing, the two Argentinian girls spent weeks traveling together up the west coast of South America — from Lima, Peru, to Ecuador’s “Mitad del Mundo” (or “middle of the world” monument), taking pictures with bright toothy smiles the whole way. Unfortunately, their trip …
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (image: Cierre de Campaña). All Rights Reserved. It is the stuff of legend in Mexico: In 1938, president Lázaro Cárdenas nationalised US and Anglo-Dutch oil companies and called on Mexicans to “furnish the necessary moral and material support” to pay the debt that newly-created Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) had acquired. Thousands of Mexicans, …
Click:round tin box Physical fitness is important for success in sports and athletics, but it is also important for good health. If you are generally fit, you probably have a strong heart, brain, muscles, and bones, all of which help you to exercise and improve your chances of living a long, fit, and healthy life. …
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The war correspondent and author MacKinlay Kantor wrote several novels on the American Civil War, like Gettysburg and his Pulitzer Prize-winning Andersonville. He also wrote crime stories, having gotten his start in pulp magazines. His story “That Greek Dog” looks at a small Midwestern town in the 1920s as its people grapple with a rising …
Paris Commune of 1871: barricade after capture by the regular army, where Boulevard Voltaire meets Richard Lenoir. Wikicommons/Bruno Braquehais. Some rights reserved. The financial and housing devastation of 2008, youth underemployment, and ultimately the victory of the radical right at the polls has resulted in talk of socialism in America. Then the talk turned to …
This story was syndicated with permission from Lambda Legal. You can view the original version here. Today, Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN, with partner law firm Winston & Strawn, filed a lawsuit on behalf of two HIV-positive members of the United States Air Force who were given discharge orders just days before the holiday season. Lambda Legal …
Journalist and novelist E.W. Howe wrote about the small towns of middle America in his fiction as well as his magazine E.W. Howe’s Monthly. A known difficult father and all-around grump, Howe’s writing never gained wide acclaim despite having stamps of approval from Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken (Twain wrote back to Howe after reading …
Shah Marai, Agence France-Presse’s (AFP) chief photographer in Kabul, Afghanistan, was among the nine journalists and more than 20 others killed in a bombing in the city on April 30. He was 41. The shock of Marai’s death in the attack shattered his colleagues and friends’ confidence that “no danger was big enough to overcome him.” While …
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The moors are always cold this time of year. I lift a half-frozen hand to make sure the buttons on my coat are fastened right up to the top, which of course, they are. I even try blowing hot air on my fingers to warm them, but it doesn’t work; my breath feels as bitter …
