Newsletter 514
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus FiveBooks
interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[5]Trial Of The Will
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5. http://b.rw/vARPQg
Christopher Hitchens | Vanity Fair | 7 December 2011
Powerful piece of writing on dealing with disease, pain, death. From one of
the great essayists. Does “whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” hold
true? Not when the very medicine that sustains you, weakens you [6]Comments
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6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/trial-will
[7]Aboard Air France 447
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7. http://b.rw/uWfm3a
Jeff Wise | Popular Mechanics | 6 December 2011
Black box recordings retell events aboard Air France Airbus that crashed in
2009 killing 228. Gripping, if worrying, read. Confused co-pilot flew into a
severe thunderstorm, tried to climb above it, stalled the plane [8]Comments
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8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/aboard-air-france-447
[9]How To Become An American
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9. http://b.rw/uNq0ay
Charles Pierce | Sports Illustrated | 6 December 2011
Hmong community from Laos fought for America in Vietnam. Some survivors were
later accepted as immigrants. Now their children are making a mark as high
school footballers. A touching, bittersweet tale from rural Arkansas
[10]Comments
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10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-become-american
[11]Callista Gingrich, The Ultimate Running Mate
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11. http://b.rw/v2jNlm
Kristina Cooke & Marcus Stern | Reuters | 7 December 2011
Newt Gingrich is the latest Not-Romney figure embraced by Republicans. Once
derided for hypocrisy of his affairs, he's now loving husband to his third
wife. But who is she, and how do they manage their relationship and
finances? [12]Comments
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12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/callista-gingrich-ultimate-running-mate
[13]How Doctors Die
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13. http://b.rw/ucKR4W
Ken Murray | Zocalo | 4 December 2011
"What’s unusual is not how much treatment they get compared to most
Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the
deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death
themselves" [14]Comments
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14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-doctors-die
[15]Derek Boogaard: A Boy Learns To Brawl
Links:
15. http://b.rw/s4QdeI
John Branch | NYT | 3 December 2011
First of gripping three-parter on life and death of Derek Boogaard, pro
(ice) hockey player. Born 1982, western Canada. Awkward, big child. Groomed
for violence from a young age. Being the "enforcer" was a way of making the
team [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/derek-boogaard-boy-learns-brawl
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Mike Dash on Hidden History
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mike-dash-on-hidden-history
The best stories from history lie beyond the margins of textbooks, says the
historian. He tells us about five extraordinary tales from the past, from
visions of the Virgin Mary to the golden age of American con artistry
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mike-dash-on-hidden-history
Featured Special Report
[19]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from the
comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
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20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]smiler29 The Economist responds to The Guardian's interview of 270
summer rioters [22]#browsings [23]t.co/AYyL7eeP [24]More like this
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22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/12/summer-riots-england?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/hearingfromenglandssummerrioters
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
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25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/becoming-justice-blackmun-by-linda-greenhouse
[26]Becoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/becoming-justice-blackmun-by-linda-greenhouse
[27]Dahlia Lithwick says: “This book tells us a lot about the court today.
Blackmun most famously was the author of Roe v Wade” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dahlia-lithwick-on-us-supreme-court-justices
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Flight Assembled Architecture
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29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/flight-assembled-architecture
Flying robots build a tower (becomes clear 40 secs in). How long before
construction workers have no jobs?
[30]More videos
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30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]John Hodgman, on parenting
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31. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200701/apologia-my-second-child?page=2
The only child, in a family without want, is the apex of Western
civilization
[32]More quotes
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32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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