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What the Hell Happened to Darius Miles?

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“Dudes like me ain’t supposed to talk about this type of stuff. I’m about to tell you some real shit. Things I haven’t told anybody. But first, we gotta go back in time. We gotta go back to when the NBA was still the NBA. Way back when I had the pager with the two-way alert.”

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How Food Empire Zingerman’s Was Built on Anarchist Theory

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“Zingerman’s, a group of 20 loosely associated businesses mostly focused on hospitality and food in the Ann Arbor area, encompasses a deli, bakehouse, restaurant, creamery, training organization, candy business, tour company and more.”

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Passing sheep and a tree-lined waterway in Bruges: Sunday’s best photos

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“Hajjah, Yemen

Displaced Yemenis from Hodeida receive food aid in the district of Aslam

Photograph: Essa Ahmed/AFP/Getty Images

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The City That Had Too Much Money

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“Vancouver was the first place to experience the tidal wave of Chinese cash. Now the city is leading efforts to stop it. The cashier’s counting machine would need to run continuously for more than 10 minutes to riffle through all the notes, which came to more than C$250,000 ($192,000).”

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brownie roll-out cookies

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“Brownie Roll-Out Cookies* Recipe from Deb’s mom 3 cups (375 grams) all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon (3 grams) salt 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup (225 grams) lightly salted butter, softened (Deb note: I don’t really see “lightly salted” much these days, so I used one stick salted, o”

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Kiese Laymon Knows His New Memoir Is Raw. But It’s Not Trauma Porn.

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“With his new memoir, Heavy, the Southern writer cements his place in the canon of American literature.”

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Smith and Carlos embodied many African Americans’ Summer of Love and Reckoning

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“In the summer of 1967, 100,000 fashion-forward and social-forward youth gathered in San Francisco in what has famously been called the Summer of Love.”

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‘If we wanted beauty, we’d travel to Paris’: how Calgary resisted its iconic pedestrian bridge

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“The celebrated Spanish architect was brought in to address a complicated brief. The crossing – connecting downtown to the northern river pathway and the community of Sunnyside – had to completely span the Bow River, while being flat enough to avoid obstructing a nearby helicopter-landing area.”