Poems / September 5, 2023 Xenotransplantation Sam Sax Ad Policy This article appears in the September 18/25, 2023 issue. my friend’s got a pig heart in him. my friend’s got part of a pig’s heart, a piece, his heart’s part pig. the aortic valve is the dog-god guarding the tube blood runs through once it’s…
Deadline Poet / September 5, 2023 Ramaswamy Calvin Trillin Ad Policy Vivek Ramaswamy, 2024 Republican presidential candidate, during the Republican primary presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wis., on August 23, 2023. (Al Drago / Getty) This article appears in the September 18/25, 2023 issue. This Ramaswamy fellow in debate Is like that kid in school who…
Books & the Arts / September 5, 2023 The Senator Who Took On the CIA Frank Church and the committee that investigated the US intelligence agencies. Adam Hochschild Ad Policy Illustration by Lily Qian. This article appears in the September 18/25, 2023 issue. On November 3, 1791, in what today is western Ohio, some 1,400…
Part of the wall running through China’s Shanxi province was dug open, causing severe damage.
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It will mean onshore wind farms only need local support, rather than unanimous agreement, to go ahead.
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9 minutes ago About sharing By Ed Thomas Special correspondent A growing number of women who say their children were handed to abusive partners by England and Wales’ family courts have abducted them and fled to Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus. The BBC spoke to six of them to investigate some of their stories. “I’m told there…