Fifty years ago, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, Congress held a revelatory series of hearings featuring anthropologists and biologists but also an artist, a theologian, and a…
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After electrifying San Francisco with their gender-bending performances and wild psychedelic chic, the group trekked to New York for a much-hyped—and ill-fated—East Coast debut. A new book bears witness to…
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As COVID-19 bears down, a spontaneous alliance of techies and health professionals in the city formerly known as Pablo Escobar’s hometown is making promising progress on an urgent medical problem….
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Hola amigos and friends from hip and dynamic Medellin where in my eighth decade I am working as hard as I was as a 22-year-old Peace Corps volunteer building the…
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Please help the Marina Orth Foundation’s rural robotics champs, from El Carmen de Viboral outside Medellin, Colombia, travel to Tallinn, Estonia, to participate in the 2019 International Robotex Competition from November 26 to December 3. In only their…
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“SO MUCH PAIN STILL EXISTS”: WHY MEDELLÍN BLEW UP PABLO ESCOBAR’S HOUSE
Vanity Fair Maureen Orth April 9, 2019 1:09 pm The mayor of Medellín is sick and tired of the world’s fascination with Pablo Escobar. Twenty-five years after Escobar’s death, the…
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