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This is the unpitiable dilemma of the professional lollygagger: You pine to be assigned a travel story because, you think, how hard could it be? You already have experience going places—to Target, to bed; you go to those places all the time—and this is just that, except, God willing, you’re going somewhere nicer than Target and getting paid for it, and all you have to do is write down what happens. Your husband’s goodbye kiss is a jealous peck; he believes, in his heart, that you have wrangled yourself a free vacation.
An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris
Caity Weaver
Teams are stocked with experts who are able to explain our riding as the conversion of so much potential into so much motion. They predict our limits, work out how many calories we might burn through. We riders, though, do not think in this way. We think about rhythm. There seems to be a perfect pace, at which we could ride forever. Things stack together: breathing, pedaling, thought. In this zone you become a sort of passenger within your own body.
We Begin Our Ascent
Joe Mungo Reed
The Internet didn’t kill news; it destroyed the classifieds subsidy. Where news organizations went wrong was not in failing to deliver faster, cheaper, better news online—to believe that is to fall into the Content Trap—but in failing to protect the classifieds subsidy or to profitably manage its migration online. Papers were beaten to the punch in capturing user connections in the digital arena.
The Content Trap
Bharat Anand
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