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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 03, 2014, 05:50:49 pm ---The December 8 issue has several articles that interested me. Of course I had to read "The View from a Bridge" by Adam Gopnik first, as I witnessed the scourge of "lovelocks" in Paris (and most other places) when I was there in September. I haven't read "The Ride of Their Lives" by Burkhard Bilger yet about rodeo children, but the photos are just heartbreaking.
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My copy of the Dec. 8 issue arrived in today's mail. I can't wait to read Bilger's article about kids learning to be bull riders. I notice there is a picture of two kids who competed in "mutton busting," so I guess they still start them on the woolies. :D
serious crayons:
Moving backward to the Dec. 1 issue, I really liked the piece on fecal transplants. Though Jeff, it's not one I suggest you read on your lunch hour.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 03, 2014, 08:43:45 pm ---Moving backward to the Dec. 1 issue, I really liked the piece on fecal transplants. Though Jeff, it's not one I suggest you read on your lunch hour.
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It won't faze me. Remember what I do for a living. I've already read a lot about fecal transplants for people because antibiotics they've been taking for other infections wipe out the "good fauna" in their GI tracts.
But thank you for calling my attention to the article. Otherwise I might somehow have missed it.
Otherwise, I'm still slogging through the Steve Coll duty article about drone warfare (Nov. 24). Actually, pretty much that entire issue is "duty" for me. :-\
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 03, 2014, 11:14:16 pm ---Otherwise, I'm still slogging through the Steve Coll duty article about drone warfare (Nov. 24). Actually, pretty much that entire issue is "duty" for me. :-\
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I found the Coll article very depressing. I guess I should read the Groopman piece and the McGrath piece, but I really just want to move on to the next issue. :-\
serious crayons:
I'm still into the Dec. 1 issue. After fecal transplants (fascinating, as I said), I read the short story, which was OK even though it was set in Israel (though I didn't realize that until the end, and it probably has subtle political shadings to which I was oblivious). I'm usually kind of picky about foreign-set stories, as I've probably said, though I think the last New Yorker short story I read was set in Japan. Now I'm reading Nicholas Lehman's piece about books about Google's success and business-success books in general.
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