December 2007
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The National Museum of the American Indian has a...
I am standing in a ground floor museum shop—one of two—where a CD playing traditional Indian woodwind and drum music has made a quick genre hop and is playing a down-tempo version of Jingle Bells.
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“At Yale, she met Boris Yurchenco, an Argentine-born painter, at a meeting of the...”
– NYT obit of Henrietta Yurchenco
The numbers.
China:1 in every 242,468. Guatemala: 1 in every 2,692. Still in awe of this.
International adoptions.
Last year, just over 5,000 children were exported from China to the rest of the world. Guatemala came in second, sending over 4,000 to families worldwide. Given the population of these two countries, that means that while one Chinese child leaves for every 200,000 people, the rate is roughly one in 2,000 for the Guatemalans.
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“Clear!”
– John Mashall McCormack Henshaw
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Heading home.
My yellow chariot home was a standard issue hack that smelled like super-ripe bananas. The driver was listening to Christmas carols and drinking water from a gallon jug.
“Vern, sorry, I’ve got to go. There are donuts up here.”
– Kaptain Kurt
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