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A Love Letter to Lake Michigan
When I think of home, I think of sprawling blue water, hazy horizon lines, and icy-cold currents. No, I’m not from the Bay or Nantucket. I am from America’s third coast: the shoreline of Lake Michigan. To be specific, I grew up in Chicago’s north-side neighborhood of Lakeview. And though the lake’s namesake takes from…
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What’s Hot this Season?
From designer handbags to cotton t-shirts, millions of tons of merchandise each year meet their fiery fate at the mouth of an incinerator. In July 2018, British designer brand Burberry admitted to tossing $36.8 million of merchandise into the flames to prevent their high-end products from falling into the wrong hands. Facing backlash and boycotts,…
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Don’t Touch My Hair
A ten-year old me sat in between Ms. M’s legs as the smell of burning hair filled her living room. She was stroking my beautiful brown curls with two plates of metal heated to 450 degrees, the burning point for hair. I would cringe when she got too close to the scalp and a sense…
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Flames in the Face of Loss
As the school year began, I found myself consistently reaching for my phone to call my grandmother on my way to class, text her a picture of my new room, or listen to the usual voice message she would send me every afternoon to ask about my day. But this year, that integral part of…
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St. Louis: Home Of The Brews
For the second year in a row, St. Louis was named the city with the “Best Beer Scene” by USA Today. St. Louis has a long history as a major beer industry hub, but the city’s ties to Anheuser-Busch aren’t driving the awards. Over the past decade, the number of breweries in the US has…
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Russia’s Very Own Search Engine, Yandex
Currently, there are only two countries within which Google is not the dominant search engine: Russia (Yandex) and China (Baidu). Baidu’s success in China is due to the country’s limits on freedom of speech which led to Google’s withdrawal from the country in 2010. However, in every other country in the world (even in North…