Oh, and—little detail—the earth’s surface has, apparently, been wiped clean by a world-historic climate event and a nuclear war, and everybody who survived is living in a bunker gussied up by its billionaire overlords to look like a perpetually temperate American suburb.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
With the ongoing hostilities, famine, and disease, among others, Sudan is hell on earth for children.
Those interactions spring from the rich loam of history and lore that gives the sport its halcyon glow, and from which even a humble amateur game absorbs vicarious grandeur.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
Carrots need a loose loam or sandy soil and plenty of moisture.
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