The New Yorker - USA (2020-05-18)

Help feed NYC’s children and families now. With the COVID-19 crisis forcing schools and many businesses to close, NYC’s children ...

20 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 a plastic resuscitator bag and a motor. Groups in Ireland and at M.I.T. were pursuing the same i ...

vice that had been F.D.A.-approved. “He dropped a lot of reality on every- body about the level of engineering we’d have to do,” ...

22 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 acceptable during peacetime, might seem counterproductive during war- time. And yet the devices ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 23 SHOUTS & MURMURS W hat the world needs right now is another endless musing on stay- ing at ...

24 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 Organizers hope that, after the coronavirus, we’ll expect more of one another. ANNALS OFACTIVISM ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 25 tributed copies of it to buildings around the city. By the time I met him, Elkind and his co-fo ...

26 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 of the 2016 Presidential election. In 2017, as wildfires ravaged Northern Califor- nia, a collec ...

after spending months in an iron lung, has limited mobility, and lives alone. He had friends who were already sick with the coro ...

28 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 reciprocity as the best and fully ade- quate society.” She cites the daughter of Laura Ingalls W ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 29 week’s worth of groceries to more than thirty-five hundred people in the neigh- borhood. The gr ...

30 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 AREPORTERAT LARGE FIVE OCEANS, FIVE DEEPS The explorers who set one of the last meaningful recor ...

PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAOLO PELLEGRIN THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 31 reach the deepest point in every ocean faced challenges as timeless ...

32 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 burned through tens of thousands of gal- lons of fuel and alcohol. In 1969, when Vescovo was thr ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 33 moving around in three dimensions, in- stead of two.” Lahey attended commer- cial diving school ...

34 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 how he wants things to be, and a dozen or so men in Florida start building. Ramsay, who works ou ...

THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 35 New Guinea, and became a polar guide. He is a trained medic, dive master, fire- fighter, aircra ...

36 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 then a thousand. Electronic systems failed. The hatch leaked. Emergency lights malfunctioned, an ...

Magee, the shop foreman, sent him a Facebook message asking if he’d like to build submarines. They had met in the two-thousands, ...

38 THENEWYORKER,M AY18, 2020 and then sail us all to a certain death?” But Buckle wasn’t so sure. A year ear- lier, when he’d ...