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The train is a great place to read,
especially rolling through the vast plains of
Montana and North Dakota where the land
stretches out to the horizon flat as a page.
Here's what I read:
COLORS - Issue 65 of the bilingual magazine
published by the Benetton clothing empire
surveys the state of press freedom around the
world on the 20th anniversary of the formation
of Reporters without Borders, an organization
which monitors conditions and advocates for
journalists. The news about news is not all bad
but it needs to get better fast.
The Sacred Balance
by David Suzuki - One of Sarah's former
coworkers lent her this. It's a plea for people
to recognize the interconnectedness of all life
on Earth and change their behavior accordingly.
Subtitled Rediscovering Our Place in Nature,
it describes in layman's terms the complex
interrelationships between humans and air,
water, soil, the sun, and other life forms. It's
a wondrous book which makes plain the urgent
need for people to curb their consumption.
Sudoku Puzzle Book - OK, this isn't strictly
reading, but it's engaging. Apparently,
Sudoku is a huge puzzle craze which I'd
never heard of before. The game is to fill a 9x9
grid with single numbers in such a way that
numbers don't repeat in any given column, row,
or 3x3 subsection. No math involved, just logic
and process of elimination. We bought it to give
to Sarah's puzzle fiend father, but we ended up
filling in (and later erasing) several pages
ourselves.
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