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Barack Obama: The Ultimate Interview World Pick of the day

Doris Kearns Goodwin | Vanity Fair | 23rd September 2016

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Obama on Obama: “On the spectrum of successful politicians, I’m not introverted the way some have been, but I’m not an F.D.R. or a Bill Clinton, who are just constantly in a crowd and just relishing it. I like my quiet time. There is a writer’s sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back. I am generally optimistic. I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad” (7,400 words)

The Deadly Business Of War-Zone Medical Care World

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At work with Médicins Sans Frontières in two of their most dangerous deployments, the Central African Republic and the Jordanian border with Syria. “Since the war in Syria began five years ago, the regime and its allies have murdered 698 Syrian doctors and nurses. Some 63 hospitals supported by MSF were bombed in 2015 and a further 16 have been attacked by August of this year. When officials planned to rebuild a hospital in southern Syria, the local residents protested — out of fear” (5,400 words)

The Depression Was Great For The American Kitchen Life

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The 1930s were a terrible time for the American economy in general, but this was “the era that made American food as we know it”. Most households bought a first refrigerator. Frozen food replaced dried and canned food. “A modern American home cook plopped into a farmhouse kitchen of 1918 would be hard pressed to get a meal out of unplucked chickens and unregulated flames. Send us to the kitchen of 20 years later, and most of us could probably turn out a pretty credible meal” (1,400 words)

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