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The 2.19.23 Issue

Highlights

  1. Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land

    What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park?

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    A Totoro-like climbing structure.
    CreditRinko Kawauchi for The New York Times
  2. Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision.

    How the landmark 1978 Supreme Court decision that upheld the practice may ultimately have set it on a path to being outlawed.

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    Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.’s opinion allowed affirmative action to continue based solely on the educational benefits of diversity for all students.
    CreditPhoto Illustration by The New York Times. Source photograph: Robert S. Oakes/Library of Congress
  1. Yotam Ottolenghi’s Secret to Great One-Pan Chicken

    This balanced paprika chicken dish is the perfect time to play with textures.

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    CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Pamela Duncan Silver.
    Eat
  2. Keep the Dunk Contest Weird

    It’s a campy celebration of basketball’s pugnacious spirit, and a jolt to the predictable pageantry of the N.B.A.

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    CreditPhoto illustration by Anthony Gerace
    Screenland
  3. A Secret for Falling Asleep So Good It’s a British National Treasure

    Tune into serenity with the BBC Shipping Forecast, a weather report from deep in the analog era.

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    CreditIllustration by Alanah Sarginson
    Letter of Recommendation
  4. Poem: [Dog Is a Way of Thinking]

    Dogs are experts at living in the moment. This poem, through its subtle formal play, allows us to experience the immediacy of language itself.

     By Magdalena Zurawski and

    CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman
    Poem
  5. Judge John Hodgman on Gift Etiquette for Books

    Can you read it before you give it away?

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    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

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