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Friday, January 19, 2018

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As-it-happens update 18 January 2018
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A friend recently sent me a photograph that tells a powerful story about the situation Venezuelans find themselves in now. It's not a very good picture, really, just a blurry cellphone shot of trash: some wrapping material, an old CD — the detritus left behind after a store was looted last week in San Felix, ...
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Sina Ghanbari, 23, died in Tehran's Evin prison, the country's most notorious jail. Authorities said he killed himself. The semi-official Fars news agency published a letter it claimed had been written by Ghanbari's family in which they said they had no plans to hold a funeral ceremony because "enemies" ...
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The snow drifted high around the little outbuilding of a restaurant I was in, metres from the gelid ocean, but the place was warm, decorated with fish nets and crab carapaces and the occasional gnome. On a dish in front of me was liver sausage cured in soured whey, dung-smoked lamb and a couple of ...
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Winter in Iceland is relentlessly dark. Most Icelanders experience it under the constant glow of streetlights. As an American who moved to Iceland in 2007, I was struck by how well-lit Reykjavík was compared with New York City. The small city was far brighter than any other I had visited. For each image ...
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Who's Right in the Salt Debate?
As I discuss in Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt, nearly all government appointed bodies and nutrition experts who have considered the evidence have recommended we collectively cut our salt intake about in half—a reduction described as extreme by those defending the ...
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