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Hugh Calkins
An example of applying energy, abilities, and leverage to the public good. We can't have enough of these examples.
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Doctors Without Borders Richard Rockefeller, MD
What would you do, if you could do anything? An inspiring answer to that question.
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Welcome Tide Fallows
A member of the next generation makes her debut.
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3 More Good Books: Ignatius, Budiansky, and (Again) Nader
A timely spy novel, an enlightening biography, and a positive rather than negative approach to current politics.
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Broadside Books Five Good Books
On sale now!
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Deborah Fallows Household News: May 18, 2014
In-house developments involving the NYT, Marketplace radio, Japanese business, and other institutions.
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Reuters The Most Exciting 1,231.4 Miles in Sports
A string that started when Lyndon Johnson was president and Barack Obama was a schoolboy in Jakarta still goes on.
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Michael Janeway and The Atlantic
A man who played a large role in shaping the magazine you see today.
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YouTube What an Autopilot Could Never Do
Fun with flying, extreme crosswinds edition.
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Great Book of Base The Freedom and Risk of Wingsuit Flying: Sean Leary
When a man is tired of wingsuit videos ...
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Roberta Mancino When a Man Is Tired of Wingsuit Videos, He Is Tired of Life ...
The world is big and interesting, chapter 438.
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AP photo, via NPR Chinese Media: The Bad and the ... Puzzling
黄皮白心”的香蕉人" and other great moments in international understanding. Bonus: the person Megyn Kelly should meet on her next trip to Beijing.
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Pages photocopied from University of Miami library John Boyd, From US News
Appreciating "a towering intellect who made unsurpassed contributions to the American art of war"
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Viking Books/YouTube 3 Different Topics, 3 Works Worth Reading
The publishing industry is in terrible trouble, as we all know. But more high-quality work keeps getting published than anyone could possibly read. A few suggestions for today
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Wikimedia Commons George Wilson
A military reporter for whom combat was never an abstraction
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Robert Pastor
An influential and original participant in international affairs
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A New Year Starts, an Era Ends
"So long, old friend."
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It's IPA Day
Every day is IPA day, but today it's official.
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Next for Your Reading List: 'Mother Daughter Me'
A difficult saga, told in elegant and upbeat style.
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Detroit's Distress, and the 'Curious Unevenness' of American Blessings'
Indelibly American.
