150 years of America’s obsession with dieting fads, charted
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Le patrimoine culturel de Gaza s’effondre sous les bombes Par Culturebox (avec AFP)
In this 2011 profile by Matt Tyrnauer, Lauren Bacall looked back on a lucky, if often difficult, life. (Vanity Fair)
By Laurie Garrett, Vanity Fair . As West Africa grapples with the deadliest outbreak in history, revisit Laurie Garrett’s 1995 piece on the brutal virus.
By Peter Tyson, PBS ….. La quarantaine au Québec Extrait de «Petite histoire des Irlandais» An Gorta Mor – La grande famine (…) Grosse Île est une petite île. Sept cent cinquante mètres de long, autant de large, on en ferait le tour en moins d’une heure. L’île entière est un cimetière, six mille Irlandais y sont…
By Thomas Martienssen, BBC News It is one of the most isolated island communities in the world. The tiny Pacific island of Palmerston is visited by a supply ship twice a year – at most – and the long and hazardous journey deters all but the most intrepid visitors. What’s more, most of its 62…
Long article du New York Review of Books Extrait: Looking back, the NSA and its predecessors have been gaining secret, illegal access to the communications of Americans for nearly a century. On July 1, 1920, a slim balding man in his early thirties moved into a four-story townhouse at 141 East 37th Street in Manhattan….
«l’objectif n’est pas de toucher à la population. Par contre, c’est la population qui a mis au pouvoir le gouvernement. Ça, c’est un élément qu’on ne peut pas effacer». La Presse