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On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South
… wouldn’t take long and that his firm couldn’t pay me for my comments. Well, I was busy, and besides that, I figured he … up in some clever and entertaining television commercials too. In one commercial, a long-haired teenager is … after several of these panels, that someone in the audience almost always raised a question about the psyches of …
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The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
… concern, feminine handicrafts, and good old-fashioned community activism; a dazzlingly colorful and ever-expanding … story, expertly conveyed on the Institute For Figuring’s website at theiff. org) a Latvian émigré mathematician named … referencing the domestic roots of handicraft, the Ladies Silurian Atoll was made by a small and intimate group …
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Weeding the Body
… her condition, known as trichotillomania—the chronic and compulsive pulling out of one’s own hair. For those with … to report their symptoms. There have been no large-scale studies of the disorder to date. Those who pull their hair out … and maintains a presence at each TLC conference. On its website, Hair Club describes itself as “here to help boost …
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Capturing Saddam: Iraq, December 2003
… 2003 The spartan interior of a U.S. Air Force C-130 has uncomfortable web seating. Our gear is strapped to a pallet in … in mud-spewing ATVs. Looking for MANPADS shooters. Those soldiers would just as soon kill a MANPADS team as look at … busts of Saddam have been cut free and craned from pedestals at each of the main roof corners. They have a vaguely …
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Graveyard of Empires: Nine Months on the Ground in Obama’s Afghanistan
… redoubt of Marja, an agricultural town latticed with canals and ditches irrigating the poppy fields that made it a … by insurgents and shared intelligence with international commanders. Even Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services … where Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s military commander, was captured. Coming nearly nine months after …
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Epiphany at the Y
… the air in handsprings, sprint down a track, and dodge oncoming players in rugby, my muscles had begun to atrophy by … able to do a sit-up for decades, since the year my mother died, one year before I’d gotten pregnant. That was twenty … an Adirondacks cabin, a swimming pool, and residences for 260 men.  The new lap pool at the Y opened in 2014. The …
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