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[Time | For a Chance]
[Sheri Fink]
[Sheri Fink] Correspondent
I first met Amna Tokmo during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. She was part of a group of remarkable young women who, while enduring the horrors of the siege of Sarajevo, selflessly organized aid for others. After the injury of her child, Amna came with her family to the U.S. as refugees and became a citizen: “So vet us, check us, process us,” she pleads in this powerful essay. “But do not deny us the chance to save our lives, our families, escape the horrors and start over again.” [GO »]
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[Yahoo Sports | Making the Call. Or Not.]
[Randy Archibold]
[Randy Archibold] Deputy Sports Editor
 The N.F.L. rule book has 70,000 words. So referees and their split-second judgments (or mistakes?) are a heated and widely disputed topic among fans, not to mention players and coaches. In this interview, a former referee recalls how he almost prematurely ended a play that led to one of the most spectacular catches in Super Bowl history, one that helped the Giants defeat the New England Patriots in 2008. It’s a good what-if for fans of the Pats ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl with the Atlanta Falcons. [GO »]
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[Sports Illustrated | The Trajectory to Kickoff]
[Adeel Hassan]
[Adeel Hassan] Reporter, Race/Related
Watching the Super Bowl, you’ll very likely notice the heavy-bearded fellow wearing a baseball cap backward with a pencil behind his ear who’s roaming up and down the Patriots sideline. Matt Patricia is unlike any other person I’ve heard or read about in professional sports. He is a rocket scientist. And, also, the conductor of the team’s league-leading defense. Some of the skills he honed while studying aeronautical engineering actually do come in handy during 18-hour days at the stadium. [GO »]
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Alamy
[Garden & Gun | Dust Bowl Determination]
[Kim Severson]
[Kim Severson] Atlanta-based Food Reporter
As both a girl who grew up playing sports and a fan of the crazy stuff you can find at your grandmother’s house, I loved this interview with Lydia Reeder, who started with an old folder of clippings and ended up writing a book about a women’s basketball team in Depression-era Oklahoma. The pseudoscience employed to try to keep women off the basketball court is particularly telling. [GO »]Â
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NASA
[Ars Technica | Happy Ending]
[Kenneth Chang]
[Kenneth Chang] Science Reporter
In 1959, NASA engineers wanted to know if astronauts could survive the crushing accelerations of the launch abort system if anything went wrong with the rocket. So they turned to Sam the rhesus monkey. Eric Berger turns up a lovely forgotten nugget of space history. [GO »]Â
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