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lifestyle differentiation made possible lifestyle choice

For days now I’ve been talking to everybody I can find, asking them how long they’ve been raw, how they found the diet, how they make it work financially, what they eat, why they eat it, and what they think about the rift that has opened up between Durianrider and Freelee and the remaining WFF pion…

—p.116 n+1 Issue 21: Throwback The Raw and the Rawer (101) by Alexandra Kleeman
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the frothy, stinking shores of Onondaga Lake

Destiny USA, and Carousel Center before it, could not have “happened” anywhere else but here. And not just here, in Syracuse, but on the frothy, stinking shores of Onondaga Lake. If it wasn’t the most polluted lake in the country, if it didn’t sit smack in the middle of a Rust Belt city verging on …

—p.95 Destiny, USA (73) missing author
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a steaming pot of gooey cheese

“My daughter lives in Wisconsin and that place is just — everybody raves about that place,” the woman said. Other members of the tour started whispering to each other and shrugging. Melting Pot? What’s a Melting Pot?

“It’s a fondue restaurant,” said a man in a suit who’d been sitting quietly in …

—p.92 Destiny, USA (73) missing author
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DestiNY USA’s humanitarian benefits

What began as a relatively modest 800,000-square-foot expansion of Carousel Center quickly mutated into a 100-million-square-foot Frankenmall that would cost $20 billion to build, making it one of the largest building projects in US history, according to Architectural Record. And it wasn’t going to…

—p.81 Destiny, USA (73) missing author
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we had seen others make things

WHY WERE PEOPLE HELPING US? It couldn’t only have been because we were lying to them. In truth, they must have been doing it for the same reason we were doing it — because they wanted to. They were lonely people who wanted to get out of their apartments; they were skilled people whose skills were b…

—p.55 Brief History of a Small Office (54) by Keith Gessen