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Out of Africa
Read more: Out of AfricaCable TV, newspapers and the web have become glad fear-mongerers. In the chaotic phase that followed the September 11 terrorist attacks, the medium became the message, and the message was almost inevitably impregnated with hysterical worry about alien agents planning daily for the apocalypse. Now, 13 years later, similar fears…
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Ebola
Read more: EbolaEbola’s flexible filaments, which some saw as resembling question marks, others spaghetti. Dates help formulate perspective. The passage of time once conferred elders with presumptive wisdom because youth saw the labor of endurance as a gift. Age was survival. Those who’d seen the terrible but stayed alive could encourage the…
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Scusi
Read more: ScusiNo phone; no app; just a map. The hackneyed phrase is time standing still. But there she is, a girl in a blue dress with a map. She’s at the corner of a narrow street lined with cypress trees and a boulevard with elms and a tram. I meet her…
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Wish you were here!
Read more: Wish you were here!Why stop with a probe? India should colonize Mars. The world is distracted. There’s ISIS and the headless, Ukraine and the dead, Ebola and the sick. People are distracted, fretful. So who’d notice a little sly ambition? India could move Delhi to the top of the planet, Mumbai to the…
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Sister Marta
Read more: Sister MartaOne shot a day in a universe far, far away. Little things tell you when nostalgia wants out of cliché’s clutches. But those same little things, when you don’t see them coming, can leave you dumfounded. In 1977, I suffered a breakdown, a predictable event after working 100 straight days…
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Holes
Read more: HolesMadrid’s manmade lake is called the Estanque. In another place and time, late summer was when Vincienta and Gabby took me to the manmade lake where I boarded a rental rowboat and splashed its oars while the nannies giggled with their boyfriends, both dressed in khaki uniforms. They saluted me…
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