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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 04, 2012, 08:25:57 pm ---And I just finished a fascinating piece -- this is actually from as recently as October -- by Philip Gourevitch about how humanitarian aid, counterintuitively, can actually increase atrocities, how although we all naturally consider those good deeds beyond blame or reproach they actually can wind up aiding genocidaires and dragging out atrocity-filled conflicts -- an outcome predicted, fascinatingly, by Florence Nightingale.
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I remember that one. Fascinating article!
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 04, 2012, 02:26:44 pm ---For sheer weirdness, I suggest "Higher, Faster, Madder" in the Dec. 19, 26, 2011, issue.
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I'm reading a great, though long, article about the quest to build a greenbelt across sub-Saharan Africa of billions of trees.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 05, 2012, 12:21:08 am ---I'm reading a great, though long, article about the quest to build a greenbelt across sub-Saharan Africa of billions of trees.
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I've read that one, too.
Front-Ranger:
I also read the Margaret Atwood story Stone Mattress, which was great, and started Reality Effects about essaying, in the same issue. I seem to be stuck on this issue!!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 05, 2012, 10:24:55 am ---and started Reality Effects about essaying
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I'm so glad you drew my attention to this, which I hadn't noticed. I'm in the middle of reading the book of essays he reviews.
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