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… signs of a crisis nearly fifteen years ago. He had studied bird populations in Keoladeo National Park outside of … across the region. White-backed vultures were once the most common raptor on the Indian subcontinent, so omnipresent … thirty million white-backed vultures once coasted on thermals above South Asia. Now there are eleven thousand. By …

… gift hilarious, and wore the socks proudly with his new sandals right through to Halloween. I laughed, too, pretending … not to find it disturbing and macabre. His toes had become grotesque with old age, as toes do when you approach … in a sports bra who flirted with him at the gym. To his buddies Lyle and Ron and other random neighbors strolling by …

… dreamy verdure, half-consciousness, half-willingness to die. The abated body’s still flexible,     so I was evolving …

… of more than 50 years ago. Dorothy’s fame rests on her Journals of daily life in the Lake District and the inspiration she gave her brother William as a companion, friend, and amanuensis. The Wordsworths were a … from home and walk all the way and back. Until Lowther died in 1802 and his heirs paid off his debts, they were too …

… my grandmother, upon learning that her entire family had died in the camps, had burned the photo albums of everyone … crying, and I couldn’t stop. Everyone at the table came to comfort me, and I felt ridiculous, but the only thing I …