WASHINGTON - I was working on a standard sidebar. That was all.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had posted the latest cyclosporiasis numbers: 1,645 confirmed cases across 34 states. One hundred forty-one people hospitalized. More than 5,100 cases still pending laboratory confirmation. Michigan alone had reported 2,640 infections—up from a typical seasonal average of roughly fifty. The intestinal parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis was having a banner year, and my editor wanted three paragraphs on what the Food and Drug Administration was doing about it.
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NO BECAUSE VOYAGE ACTUALLY SLAPS AND I RESENT IT
five years. latitude has been cooking this thing for FIVE YEARS. and i'm not talking about the kind of five years where a startup burns VC money and ships a half-baked game that trends on tiktok for three days then dies. i'm talking about five years of iteration on the World Engine—six different prototype engines, according to linkedin—until they had something that doesn't completely fumble the core promise: unscripted NPCs with actual memory and dynamic worlds where your choices
...GALT HOUSE HOTEL, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY - I’m filing this dispatch from a barstool in the Galt House Hotel's lobby lounge, where the carpeting hasn’t been replaced since Mel Carnahan was governor of Missouri and a man named Corky Sallee is nursing his fourth bourbon of the evening and telling me, again, with feeling, that he’s here for a
...By Kharla, Fashion Director, IRREVERENT
She is in the car from Charles de Gaulle. The driver has not spoken since the airport. Paris receives her the way Paris always receives her: as an inconvenience that has been scheduled in advance.
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I am not Irish.
I want to be clear about this upfront, because the editors of this magazine — specifically one Scott Meadow, a man who assigns international travel the way most people send passive-aggressive emails — apparently believe that growing up in Brooklyn
...The Union Stockyards processed five hundred million animals between 1865 and 1971. I want you to hold that number for a moment, because numbers like that don't behave like regular numbers. They don't fit inside a sentence and stay there politely. Five hundred million. The
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"Shameless Lies, Chaotic Incompetence and Temper Tantrums: A Blueprint for American Leadership"
By Brad
...[Editor's Note: Jackie's previous dispatch from SIFF, as well as this one, discussed the Czech director "Miroslav Vašíček," who still does not exist. We checked again. — Ed.]
I filed my last dispatch from Shanghai in a state of what I can only describe as provisional crisis. I had spent what seemed like years on the
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