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The Newest Migrant of the Seas
Many people complain that the news is garbage. But for more than six months in 1987, it actually was. We’re talking real garbage. Trash. Waste. More than 3,150 tons of it, all on one barge—the Mobro 4000. An almost-bankrupt Alabama businessman, wary that one New York town’s landfill was almost full, suggested its trash be…
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The Twitter Round-Up: Brian Williamsing, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Jetpacks
Twitter as a medium is, in some ways, a miracle. It is, after all, the reason we get to ask the question “Were politicians, reporters and people this incomprehensibly incapable of grasping reality before the Internet, or is it a new fad to be crazy?” I’m afraid that I’m not here to answer that question (though…
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