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...throws herself into a bevvy of characters: The high-strung principal Mrs. Kennedy, concerned only with the school’s statewide Regents scores and the federal grants that depend on them; the abrasive security guard, who sends students home if they dare sport so much as a metal belt buckle; Sun’s landlord, who believes that sending all students to Catholic school would solve the problems of the American educational system; and Sun herself, the dedicated teacher who, after attending Catholic school for twelve years, “didn’t know [she] was black until...
without hitting a Top 10 list, and that list might well be "Top 10 Dead Cats of 2007." Celebrity meltdowns, speed-metal CDs, concept cars--we count 'em all. Why the obsession, for listmakers and list readers alike? Here are some guesses in the only format that matters...
Every closed factory has its own kind of unbearable silence. The Yazegi Group's soft-drink plant in Gaza, with its maze of metal tubes and conveyor belts all switched off, has the hush of a futuristic mausoleum. Marketing manager Ammar Yazegi pauses beside empty 7Up bottles stacked in perfect emerald-green cubes up to the rafters and says, "I miss the music of the machines and workers. It's a beautiful noise. This silence drives me crazy...
...Beef is best in flavor and texture when cattle is between 18 and 24 months old,” which accounts for why most cattle are slaughtered at this age.) Most slaughters are two-step. First, the bull receives a bolt of electricity or a metal rod to the forehead, which stuns it into unconsciousness. Next, its throat is cut, at which point it dies of exsanguination. It’s not exactly a pretty process, but if—like me—you really like hamburgers, the reality of the process is just something that you have...
...animal rights groups that declare bullfighting “cruelty towards animals” and asking myself: Do I agree with them? And I realized that the answer is no. I don’t know who could really say whether two years in a feedlot and a quick metal rod to the head is better, overall, than three years running free and 20 minutes of pain. Neither, however, do I agree with Hemingway; during the corrida that I attended (a corrida includes six individual fights), I saw very little of art and honor, but a lot of slaughter...