The New Yorker - USA (2021-12-13)

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 19 Kenny G 1 SMOOTHOPER ATOR DEPT. SURPRISEGUEST A few hours before the local première of the ...

F or fi fty years, Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French name, Médecins Sans Frontières, has provided lifesaving med ...

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22 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 ANNALSOFMONEY COIN TOSS A Welshman has lost the key for half a billion dollars’ worth of bit ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 23 lier, shortly after the cryptocurrency was developed, he’d learned about it in an online fo ...

24 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 to insure that nobody knows where he’s stashed his gold, bitcoin owners spend a lot of time ...

hind hard drives and came to believe that the city officials were wrong. Al- though the covering of the drive was metal, the dis ...

26 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 proposal to recover the bitcoin, at no cost to the city, but was not persuaded. As he recall ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 27 He drove to the area where he had estimated that his hard drive would likely be. We passed ...

28 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 the kids had left in a hurry and never come back. He told me that his children were into oth ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 29 SHOUTS & MURMURS LUCI GUTIÉRREZ A fter working a hundred hours a week on top of navigat ...

30 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 THECONTROLOFNATURE A NEW LEAF Could tinkering with photosynthesis prevent a global food cris ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 31 the school stood out—a plant enthu- siast who took her students on frequent field trips. In ...

32 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 and “game-changing discoveries that will lead to better harvests.” One of the opportunities ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 33 of pumping continue, in twenty-five years the state, which is sometimes re- ferred to as “t ...

34 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 costly: it’s estimated that it can reduce the efficiency of photosynthesis by forty per cent ...

visability of developing genetically mod- ified varieties for use in countries that don’t particularly seem to want them, he tol ...

36 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 the biochemistry,” she continued. “But I do think along the way we are going to find things ...

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38 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 AREPORTERAT LARGE AN ACCIDENTAL REVOLUTIONARY The woman who challenged Belarus’s dictatorshi ...