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The Case for Ketchup, a Glorious Mutant
The global history of the condiment.
Fears grow that overseas targeted killing by states is on the rise
"A former senior US intelligence official said: ‘This is Modi looking at the world and saying to himself, ‘The US conducts targeted killings outside of war zones. The Israelis do it. The Saudis do it. The Russians do it. Why not us?’"
Confessions of a Late Bloomer
"In a 1989 study, New York psychologist J. Marvin Eisenstadt scoured the records of 699 eminent Americans and found that 45 percent had lost a parent before age 21. Only two other groups in the general population show that level of orphanhood—juvenile delinquents and depressive or suicidal psychiatric patients."