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In Nigeria, a Preview of an Overcrowded Planet
“In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people — a population about as big as that of the present-day United States — will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico.”
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For drinking water, Mr. Louis said, his family relies on a local well. But he lives from hand to mouth and cannot afford water purification tablets; the free supply he got in 2010 ran out long ago. So he gambles.
‘If you make it to the hospital,” he said, “you survive the cholera.’
The cover story of today’s New York Times, detailing Haiti’s cholera epidemic. -
Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones is a convenient surveillance tool in many situations, but it is unclear if using such technology without a warrant violates the Constitution.
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His first bill for location scouting was $13.42.
Castle Rock Entertainment producer Martin Shafer in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, describing director Whit Stillman’s frugality on his latest picture, Damsels in Distress -
What I like and find liberating in dialogue comedy is that the characters, and what they say, are not me…. These are fleeting thoughts and observations and not presented as truths but as something that illuminates the character and the dynamic between the characters. This kind of dialogue is thesis and antithesis — and we never get to a synthesis.
Damsels in Distress director Whit Stillman in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine -
Religious Statues Left Behind Find Their Own Patron Saint
A makeup artist gathers homeless religious statues in a shuttered Catholic church that he owns, and then restores them to their former ethereal state.
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Most films are as ephemeral as popcorn. But as time passes, the works we tried to junk often prove more interesting than the ones we chose to save.
archive.org’s Rick Prelinger, in today’s New York Times -
Microfilm and microfiche were once a utopian vision of access to all information, but it turned out we were very glad we kept the books.
archive.org founder Brewster Kahle on the value of retaining physical archives, in today’s New York Times -
Do you remember, Milan Kundera wrote this book about the lightness of the being? We just wanted to show you the heaviness of the being.
Hungarian director Bela Tarr in The New York Times, promoting his latest (and possibly last) film, The Turin Horse.
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