From FM 7-22 Holistic Health and Fitness, a training field manual for soldiers. Each sentence was taken from the 244-page guide, which was revised and republished last October by the…

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From video reviews posted to Steve1989MREInfo, a YouTube channel on which Steve Thomas evaluates military rations and MREs (meals ready to eat). concentrated beef for beef tea, second boer war…

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From a deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell taken in April 2016 by attorneys for Virginia Giuffre, who alleges that Maxwell recruited her and other underage girls as part of a sex-trafficking…

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From Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems, which was published in November by Nightboat Books. ignites in me plenitude that scents rain. Sense the sky is full of surprising…

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From a sermon given in July 2020 by the minister at Grace Community Church, a megachurch in Sun Valley, California. The church had a coronavirus outbreak in October. We are…

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From geoengineering projects proposed by researchers between 2012 and 2020 to prevent or mitigate the impact of climate change. Plant trees Grow waxier plants Paint roofs, roads, sidewalks, and buildings…

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From Wild Swims, a collection of short stories, which will be published next month by Graywolf Press. Translated from the Danish. There’s a stubble field in front of the rental…

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By Ryozui Ryosen, a fourteenth-century Japanese Zen monk. The poem is the first recorded mention of ramen in Japan and was deciphered last year by Hajime Yoshizawa, an associate professor…

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Tell me how the story ends

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Because I must, I accept that there are people who don’t care too much about those they bump into on the journey. They just want to enjoy a beer or…

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Inside Ukraine’s extremist militias

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What a lot of little music can do? The blind farmer Daylights in his cabbage row, going crouched down between leafy skulls, knows. He rises indifferent, far-gazing as a fine…

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Among the contemplatives

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Perhaps she should have known that she would find her lost love—her Viking husband, gone these many years—in Sydesgaard, on the island of Funen, in the village of his people.…

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Lovers and Time, by Alex Kanevsky © The artist. Courtesy Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco Danielle McLaughlin’s debut novel, The Art of Falling (Random House, $28), recounts a tumultuous season…

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The languid pleasures of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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Tove Ditlevsen’s relentless clarity

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Thurneysser’s Demon, a mixed-media artwork (watercolor, gouache, pencil, and ink on paper), by Walton Ford? © The artist. Courtesy Kasmin Gallery, New York City Five of six early Homo species…

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