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Chapter 2: Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS WERE SCHEDULED to meet again on November 17, 2020, to elect our leadership team for the 117th Congress.
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Chapter 1: Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
TWO DAYS AFTER THE 2020 election, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy told me he had talked to Donald Trump. “He knows it’s over,” McCarthy said. Trump just needed some time to process the loss. “He needs to go through all the stages of grief,” McCarthy added.
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Chapter 2: Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor “shook the United States as nothing had since the firing on Fort Sumter,” wrote historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
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Chapter 1: Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
The first of the dozen Fortresses to clear the runway was Butcher Shop, piloted by twenty-seven-year-old Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., of Miami, Florida.
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Chapter 2: Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
As most probably know, the former vice president was widely pilloried for claiming this distinction in a 1999 interview on CNN. His exact words were: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
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Chapter 1: Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
I know you came for stories about the tech billionaires like Elon and Mark and Sheryl and Peter and Jeff and Steve and Tim.
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Chapter 2: Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
At sixteen, Nora[1] sits at the giggly edge of womanhood. Her hair, a cascade of dense brown curls. Her smile, all gums and braces, enlivens whenever she mentions her friends. She is always, always connected to them, she tells me—on Snapchat, all day long, even during class.
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Chapter 1: Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
In 2006, I packed up everything I owned and moved from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles to be closer to my then boyfriend. I had only ever visited California once, a few months earlier, when I had flown out to meet his parents.
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Chapter 2: Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans
When US government officials do acknowledge that drugs are coming into the United States from China, rather than holding the Chinese government to account, they seem to place all the blame on Chinese organized crime groups, known as triads, for the illegal drug production and distribution.
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Chapter 1: Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans
President Joe Biden sat facing China’s president Xi Jinping, each at a separate table draped in blue cloth. It was November 2022, and the two leaders were in Bali, Indonesia.
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Chapter 2: Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
I don’t remember what the last straw was in my growing frustration with medical training, but I do know that the beginning of the end came courtesy of a drug called gentamicin.
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Chapter 1: Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
I’ll never forget the first patient whom I ever saw die. It was early in my second year of medical school, and I was spending a Saturday evening volunteering at the hospital, which is something the school encouraged us to do.
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Chapter 2: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
A coroner’s inquest, composed of jurors and led by a justice of the peace, was hastily convened at the ravine. Inquests were a remnant of a time when ordinary citizens largely assumed the burden of investigating crimes and maintaining order.
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Chapter 1: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
In April, millions of tiny flowers spread over the blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Oklahoma.
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Chapter 2: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller the doubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening.
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Chapter 1: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. . . . That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past. . . . Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.