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The Water’s Commonwealth
One of David Hawxhurst’s photographs shows dugout canoes outfitted with patchwork sails made of grain sacks. From the picturesque vessels, fishers cast nets into the Gulf of Ghana, pulling in a modest daily catch to make a living and help feed Ghanaian villagers. Through Hawxhurst’s lens the boats seem works of art, but …
Read MoreI’m Going Native
… But wait. Birds eat bugs. Birds also eat berries, and indeed, we plant berry-bearing bushes to attract birds. They eat berries, to be sure, but to feed their nestlings most birds need the protein that insects provide. And most native insects evolved in conjunction with native plants and can’t feed on most exotic …
Read MoreSure, Fine
… Ruth pulled the thread through the skin six times. He made her wrap his thumb with duct tape. At the sink, she washed her hands.
“Let’s feed a fucking bus,” he said, and kicked open the door to the kitchen.
Like geese, the tourists had taken over the picnic benches and were looking around …
The Cook
… in rank at that age; she must have joined up late. I try to imagine her story. In the eyes of the man-boys she feeds, most of them not quite 25, she is a mother’s age, almost elderly. A lifetime between them.
She crooks a leg and pulls it in with laced …
Crossing into Syria
… fraying at the edges, people become doubly suspicious. Pro-rebel soldiers remain in the al-Assad army to inform for the FSA. Apparent defectors are in fact feeding information back to the regime. Shabiha, hired hit men whose civilian clothes often hide full-torso tattoos of al-Assad, lurk everywhere. The mountain roads are impossible …
Read MoreDemons Where Once There Were None
… plausible and something they were likelier to have experienced as young children. (Control participants who merely completed the questionnaires twice, or who received stories and “fear profile” feedback about an unrelated event, did not show this pattern.) Importantly, most students still thought they probably had not witnessed possession; they were merely less certain about this …
Read MoreHerschel and the Steelheads
… weeks, a rival bull vanquishes him. After the breeding season, the bulls migrate north, leaving the females to raise the pups. That’s why the big steelhead feeders at the Ballard Locks are males.
How to protect the steelhead run? The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, along with federal, local, and tribal agencies, have …
On Friendship
… are complicated.
Our earliest friendships are coed, then imprecisely homoerotic, as we reach the age at which tribal peoples form cadres of hunter-warriors to protect and feed the clan, then homophobic for the sake of family life, and at last relaxed and coed again. Nevertheless, infatuation changes the equation, the high stakes of intimacy …
Happily Ever After
… the woods (1812 edition) or it’s their stepmother (1840 on), the woman is confronting the man with the grim knowledge that the two of them can feed themselves or feed the children, but not both.
Folk tales take place in a harsh universe. Innocent children are killed, chopped up, and eaten. Wrongdoers suffer gruesome …
A Song for Molly
… establish a daily routine that revolves around going for walks. But she still prefers sleep to playing with other dogs and doesn’t eat much. I try feeding her different things, but she keeps getting thinner. Sometimes she comes over to where I am working and looks up at me as if to tell me …
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