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Archive: 2009

Findings

Biophysicists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center discovered that red pandas can taste aspartame, neotame, and sucralose and will consume large amounts of these substances if given the chance; lions,…

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Noble and savage

The bitter extremes of Elsa Morante

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Eloquent phantom

Tayeb Salih's search for an elusive present

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Wait till you see me dance

I know when people will die. I meet them, I can look into their faces and see if they have long to last. It’s like having a knack for math…

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The Ghosts of Doongerwadi

Among Bombay’s dwindling Parsis

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We Still Torture

The new evidence from Guantánamo

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Eclogue

On the rich sin of meddling

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Labor’s Last Stand

The corporate campaign to kill the Employee Free Choice Act

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August 2009

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