President Rodrigo Chaves of Costa Rica disclosed his directive to declare a nationwide state of emergency
humanity
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Renewed vigor and deeper understanding often follow a period of mourning. With the death of America and the collapse of the international order, awakening human beings must move to fill…
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Sometimes you read a sentence that stops you in your tracks. Great writing takes the reader beyond words, and generates a moment of beauty and insight. I came across such…
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It’s late afternoon. The foothills are astoundingly clear after raining all night and morning. A few lines of gray and white cumulus hover over the hills, like stationary waves crashing…
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As I stopped on the bike to look at the hills, I was confronted by at least 100 crows. They were on the ground by the dozens, and dozens more…
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Scientists have pinpointed a few of the differences in the 1% of DNA we do not share with our closest primate cousins—chimpanzees and bonobos. They appear to be “accelerated evolutionary…
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There’s a great oak next to the park road at the upper end, with seven huge branches reaching down to the grass on one side. It was as magnificent as…
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Have you ever noticed how the best and the worst are often attracted to the same places? Both the best and worst among us, and in us? After a few…