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Centrifugal Force (opens the original)
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“Clinton, Iowa, is topographically flat and economically declining. The sawmills that made the city rich in the late 19th century have been repurposed as a museum. One of the Victorian mansions long since abandoned by the old lumber barons is open for tours, but tourists are scarce. Clinton has shrunk to about 24,000 people, and the town center, along the Mississippi River, feels nearly empty. On the west side, miles of deep-green corn and soy fields are crisscrossed with transmission wires and
Broken Bread (opens the original)
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Guess who’s coming to dinner? No one. In the early days of NextDraft, my tagline was dinner party prep. I dropped it for a couple reasons. First, these days, the last thing anyone wants to have spoil their appetite is a discussion of the news of the day. And second, no one is having dinner parties, anyway. “Until 1975, half of Americans said they entertained guests at their home every month. But then something changed. Americans stopped throwing parties. Even more fundamentally, they stopped vis
Screwed (opens the original)
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When I was in junior high, I carried around a screw in the front pocket of my corduroys. I’d occasionally pull it out, open my hand to display it to an attractive person, and ask, “Wanna screw?” I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether this behavior made me a comedic prodigy or signaled that I had a screw loose. But one thing is for sure. I was selling the wrong screw. Ironically, the one I should have focused on is called a precision ball screw. And not just because that name offers even more
Just Doo It (opens the original)
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My beagles and I have an arrangement. I agree to pick up after them after they do their business, and they agree not to tell the other members of my family what I eat after everyone else has gone to bed. The deal seems simple enough, but it turns out that there used to be questions about whether or not dog owners should be required to scoop the poop at all. In the 1970s, NYC was awash in excrement. City officials pushed several possible solutions, including requesting the pets only go to the bat
Shoot Your Shot (opens the original)
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Finding someone not on Ozempic is like trying to find a piece of hay in a needle stack. People are poking, prodding, puncturing, and piercing themselves for reasons ranging from high blood sugar to obesity. And a whole lot of us are taking a stab at it just ... because. It’s gotten to the point that Lin-Manuel Miranda might have to tweak some of his most famous lyrics. I am not throwin’ away my shot. Ay, yo, I’m just like my country, I’m young, scrappy and not at all hungry, and I’m not throwin’
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