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On June 17, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers played a game of basketball. It was the sixth game in the NBA Finals and Boston was leading the best-of-7 series by 3 games to 2. Boston had had a rough road to the Finals, with several series going to seven games against teams [...]
Lord Ickenham patches up relations amongst the younger set.
Venkatesh is a sociologist who spent ten years studying a housing project in Chicago. He gained access to the projects through a sort of partnership with a local gang leader, without whose permission he would not have been able to get very far. In this book he tells the story of his experiences and the [...]
Pollan surveys the Western landscape of eating and finds it wanting. He comes up with some rules of thumb he summarizes with “eat food, not too much, mostly plants”.