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

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 ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 39 For many Belarusians, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s distaste for politics made her an effectiv ...

40 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 she might be shot, but the car kept mov- ing, and she crossed into Lithuania. The next morni ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 41 tity to flourish. Between 1937 and 1940, most of the élite was wiped out, as Stalin- ist pu ...

42 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 English, in an experimental program that used American textbooks, and the language inspired ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 43 ferred to a job at the United Nations office in Geneva. Zaretskaya was cap- tivated by the ...

44 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 campaign viable, released a prerecorded video, in which he affirmed his candi- dacy. “For tw ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 45 ing inside you,” she told me. “Sviatlana, and many Belarusians, are now in ex­ actly this p ...

46 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 voted for Alexander Lukashenka? No- body gets hurt.” A couple of executives raised their han ...

and human rights. I rode with the dep- uty chairman, Valentin Stefanovich, as he went to meet a man whose brother had been kille ...

48 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 oligarchs have expressed interest in buy- ing. According to a former senior mem- ber of the ...