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P rof i l es 87
Scott Russell Sanders Under the Influence 87
“My father drank. He drank as a gut-punched boxer gasps for breath, as a
starving dog gobbles food— compulsively, secretly, in pain and trembling.”
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Fred Vogelstein And Then Steve Said, “Let There Be an iPhone” 617
“Apple’s innovations have set off an entire rethinking of how humans interact
with machines.”
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Cu lt u r a l A n a ly sis 20 0
Annie Leonard The Story of Bottled Water 200
“I was curious about where the plastic bottles that I put in recycling bins
go. . . . I’ll never forget riding over a hill outside Madras [India] where I came
face to face with a mountain of plastic bottles from California.”
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Franklin Foer How Soccer Explains the American Culture Wars 350
“Not just pundits buried in the C Section of the paper, but people with
actual power believe that soccer represents a genuine threat to the Ameri-
can way of life.”
Fo od 274
Marion Nestle Utopian Dream: A New Farm Bill 274
“[F]ood has one particular advantage for advocacy. . . . Everyone eats.”
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Sp or t s 320
Roger Angell The Interior Stadium 320
“[T]he patterns of baseball, for all the game’s tautness and neatness, are
never regular. Who can predict the winner and shape of today’s game?”
Franklin Foer How Soccer Explains the American Culture Wars 350
“Not just pundits buried in the C Section of the paper, but people with
actual power believe that soccer represents a genuine threat to the Ameri-
can way of life.”
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O p- Eds 378
Anna Quindlen Stuff Is Not Salvation 378
“As the boom times fade, an important holiday question surfaces: why in the
world did we buy all this junk in the first place?”
Molly Ivins Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns 384
“In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society.”
Brent Staples Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s 388
“Faced with demanding consumers and stiff competition, colleges have simply
issued more and more A’s, stoking grade inflation and devaluing degrees.”
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Brent Staples Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s 388
“Faced with demanding consumers and stiff competition, colleges have simply
issued more and more A’s, stoking grade inflation and devaluing degrees.”
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Judith Newman To Siri, with Love: How One Boy with Autism Became
BFF with Apple’s Siri 628
“Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s ‘intelligent personal assistant’ on the
iPhone, is currently his BFF.”
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Dennis Baron Facebook Multiplies Genders but Offers Users the Same
Three Tired Pronouns 634
“The persons at Facebook are enlightened enough to acknowledge gender as
fluid, but when it comes to grammar, their thinking rigidifies into masculine,
feminine, and neuter.”
Jeffrey Owen Jones The Man Who Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance 793
“I first struggled with ‘under God’ in my fourth-grade class.”
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Henry David Thoreau Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 967
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Fred Vogelstein And Then Steve Said, “Let There Be an iPhone” 617
“Apple’s innovations have set off an entire rethinking of how humans interact
with machines.”
Co n tent s xxv
Judith Newman To Siri, with Love: How One Boy with Autism Became
BFF with Apple’s Siri 628
“Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s ‘intelligent personal assistant’ on the
iPhone, is currently his BFF.”
Dennis Baron Facebook Multiplies Genders but Offers Users the Same
Three Tired Pronouns 634
“The persons at Facebook are enlightened enough to acknowledge gender as
fluid, but when it comes to grammar, their thinking rigidifies into masculine,
feminine, and neuter.”
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