Saturday, July 13, 2024

Inside the Kennedy Scramble to Manage the RFK Jr. Crisis (Newser Deep Dive)

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July 13, 2024
 
 
With roots in elected office dating back to the 1800s, the Kennedys have long been called American royalty. Despite scandal and tragedy following the family over generations—so much so, a supposed family curse shrouds their mystique—the powerful reputation that comes with the name has remained. Keep reading
 
The story starts off in a typical fashion: a cult leader gains notoriety and wealth, purchases a compound, and fills it with disciples, primarily young women, who serve as his sexual subordinates. But in reporter Geoffrey Gray's twisty examination in Alta of Carlos Castaneda and his sect of devoted chacmools, female followers named after pre-Columbian Mexican sculptures, the story takes a different turn. Keep reading
 
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The biggest names in sports and the biggest names in Hollywood appear to have anointed one orthopedic surgeon the biggest name in medicine. As an entertaining profile in the New Yorker explains, that would be Dr. Neal ElAttrache of the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles. Keep reading
 
When Francesca Mari decided to take a European trip with her aging dad, it wasn't just fun that she was hoping for. Writing for the New York Times, Mari expands on her father's Alzheimer's and how, as dementia started to steal his memories, she hit upon an idea: Why not take him to Switzerland and Italy to re-create a 1966 boyhood trip he'd taken there that he always spoke fondly of? Keep reading
 
Neil Armstrong left more than his footprints on the moon. As Becky Ferreira writes in Wired, he and his fellow Apollo astronauts also left nearly 100 bags of poop up there over various missions, where they remain to this day. Keep reading
 
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