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October 20, 2019
9 Screenland Total Eclipse By Jody Rosen / 14 The Ethicist Teaching Ethics to Ill-Behaved Children By Kwame Anthony Appiah / 18 Diagnosis An Unbearable Itch
By Lisa Sanders, M.D. / 22 Letter of Recommendation Souvenir Photo Viewers By Kate Dwyer / 24 Eat The Power of Zhug By Gabrielle Hamilton
6 Contributors / 7 The Thread / 12 Poem / 14 Judge John Hodgman / 23 Tip / 52, 53, 54 Puzzles / 53 Puzzle Answers
Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New York TimesBehind the Cover Gail Bichler, design director: ‘‘We chose to represent this week’s cover story, an investigation into a vast network that has allowed fentanyl to reach the United
States from China, through the visual of a classic evidence board. Like the investigation, it begins with a teenager’s tragic overdose, and it hints at the extensive supply chain by
including maps, legal fi lings, shell companies and other related materials.’’ Photo illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban. Photograph by Sarah Anne Ward for Th e New York Times.
Source photographs from Associated Press, Getty Images, Roy Sen and Laura Henke.
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26 The Jean-Georges Recipe
By Christopher Cox / In the era of the auteur
chef, Jean-Georges Vongerichten has somehow
figured out how to create unique high-end
restaurants by the dozen. How — and why —
does he do it?
32 The China Connection
By Alex W. Palmer / How a teenager’s death in
North Dakota led to an investigation that
uncovered one of the world’s largest fentanyl
rings — and a network of Chinese chemical
companies that fuel American addiction.40 The Journalist and the Autocrat
By Joshua Hammer / Maria Ressa and
the increasing perils of investigative
journalism in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines.The chef Jean-Georges
Vongerichten at his restaurant ABC
Cocina in Manhattan. Page 26.Copyright © 2019 The New York Times