March/April 2020

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To Return Kindness
A few years ago, my wife was walking down a New York City street and suddenly lost her footing and fell to the ground. She was unable to get up — she didn’t realize it, but she’d broken her hip. A small crowd of eight or so quickly gathered around he
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Contributors
In “Better Medical Care for the›Elderly” (page 42), geriatrician Aronson uses stories from 25 years of experience caring for older patients to illustrate how complex people’s health needs can become as they age. “Life has three main, decades-long pha
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Letters
I love the beauty of egrets in real life, but your cover painting by Ohara Koson, showing the birds huddled together for warmth in falling snow, took my breath away. Jenna Miller, Chicago, Illinois “When Elvis Flopped in Vegas” (Jan/ Feb) is a fasci
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Kindness Is The New Cool
Not that I look to Lady Gaga for guidance on anything other than music, but late last year, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the pop superstar said something simultaneously obvious and powerful: “Kindness heals the world. It’s what brings us toget
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No More Mr. Ice Guy
March is National Frozen Foods Month, so the National Frozen and Refrigerated Foods Association is encouraging us to share our interactions with frozen foods on social media, which sounds vaguely obscene and I won’t be doing it. I love some frozen fo
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The Joys Of Shearing Ornery, 250-pound Sheep
My journey to a vocation as a sheep shearer began in 2007 when I moved to California to take a chance on the man who would, happily, become my husband. I thought a knitting class might be a good way to make new friends. Then, as now, local food was a
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Can You Put A Price Tag On Life?
Everything, as they say in America, has its price. It has been found that a lack of sleep costs the American economy $411 billion a year and stress another $300 billion. Countless other studies have calculated the annual cost of pain ($560 billion),
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Ask The Manners Guy
My stepdaughter has been to visit frequently, and she doesn’t seem to do her part. She promises to sweep up after her messy and rowdy babies, but after her last two visits, I had to clean and vacuum the carpet and found residual pieces of cereal in t
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Top 10 Reads
Apeirogon (Random House) by Colum McCann. Two fathers, one Palestinian and one Israeli, have both lost their daughters to violence. Their lives intertwine as they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace. The Mirror & the Light (Henry Holt
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Seriously Good Films and TV
Based on Joe Hill’s bestselling graphic novel, this long-awaited 10-episode series finds a recently widowed mother (Scandal’s Darby Stanchfield) moving back to her ancestral home with her three kids after her husband is brutally killed. They find a s
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A Yelp for Help
On August 20, 2012, San Francisco attorney Dawn Hassell signed an agreement to represent Ava Bird in a personal injury claim. Less than a month later, Hassell withdrew her representation because Bird was unresponsive to communications. On January 28,
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Stewart Patrick
Patrick Stewart looks absolutely splendid. He smiles at the compliment. “It’s a tribute to my peasant genes.” Stewart admits that being a self-declared workaholic is part of the secret to seeming more than a little like the Captain Jean-Luc Picard fr
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Youth Football? Game Over
The numbers don't lie. When it comes to sports in America, nothing's bigger than football. More people watch it than any other sport, and the NF L's marquee event, the Super Bowl, is viewed by roughly one-third of the country annually. But thesport's
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How A Dying River Was Brought Roaring Back To Life
Adorning the walls of Kim Sager-Fradkin’s office at the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe are captivating images of mountain lions and river otters, sharp-toothed predators that patrol the banks of Northwest Washington State’s Elwha River. But there’s a more
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How Iran Became Our Enemy
The year 2020 was barely a day old when the U.S. became embroiled in a foreign policy crisis of potentially catastrophic proportions. In apparent retaliation for an assault on the U.S. embassy in Iraq by militia forces, President Trump approved the a
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Better Medical Care For The Elderly
When I tell someone what I do for a living, they usually have one of two reactions. Either their face contorts as if they’d just smelled something foul, or they offer compliments about my selfless dedication to an important cause. Those in the forme
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Going To Waste
IT’S A DRIZZLY MARCH MORNING in Nashville, and the sky looks like the garbage dump beneath it — a vast gray-brown morass. Against this backdrop, Georgann Parker appears like a Mad Max desperado. She’s wearing safety glasses and surgical gloves, tall
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The Splendor of Ruins
The built landscape is often how we relate visually to history. We visit archaeological sites, monuments, churches, temples, mosques, museums, forts, castles, and buildings of state. We speak of the pleasure and splendor of ruins — but how often does
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A Knock At The Door
An angry fist beat against the door of Harold’s log cabin. The noise awakened him from a recurring dream. In the dream, his deceased wife, Marge, was still alive but for some unknown reason she had disappeared. Harold went from room to room in a big
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Medical Mailbox
Why am I gradually losing my sense of taste and smell, and is there a remedy? Carole Weiss, Katonah, New York You are not alone. And a loss of special receptors in the nose is likely to blame. “A gradual loss of smell (and flavor) likely reflects a
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Drink Up (or Not!)
Two recent studies highlight the potential health effects of two popular beverages. Here’s my take on the latest advice for tea and wine drinkers. Previously, I wrote about how we can unknowingly ingest five grams of plastic each week, which, by weig
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Taste Of Spring
For me, there’s no better transition than the one from winter to spring. I practically live at the farmers market, taking advantage of the bounty of fresh produce. I look for peas, asparagus, and strawberries at their flavorful peak, and I showcase t
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Big Hearts For Tiny Homes
On a chilly November night in 2019, Alan Graham slept on the streets of Austin, Texas. He has spent roughly 250 nights in the city’s parks and alleys over the past 15-plus years, easily identified by his black Mobile Loaves & Fishes cap and his white
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How Our Grandmothers Disappeared Into History
I recently googled my grandmother’s name. I wanted to know the date she died so I could better place a childhood memory. In the 21st century, embarrassingly, the internet has become the family Bible. The first hit was a link to my own book, a history
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Hardest Worker In Show Biz
Four months before shooting for Lawrence of Arabia was scheduled to start, Peter O’Toole arrived in Jordan. He was determined to learn the Arabic tongue, familiarize himself with Bedouin dress, and master the art of riding a camel. In the beginning t
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On A Roll
It could easily be called America’s most durable candy. Tootsie Rolls have been in production since 1907, after they were invented by Leo Hirschfeld, an Austrian immigrant. He named the candy in honor of his daughter Clara, whom he affectionately cal
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Putting On a Face Good
In 1930, Norman Rockwell traveled to California on the advice of his lawyer, who wanted the artist out of his home state of Vermont while he, the lawyer, settled a contract lawsuit with another magazine. Rockwell stayed with friends who lived near Ho

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