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New York Times reporters and editors are highlighting great stories from around the web. Let us know how you like it at [wwr@nytimes.com](mailto:wwr@nytimes.com?subject=Newsletter%200106%20Feedback).
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[Altered Ego](
[Julie Bloom](
[Julie Bloom]( California and the West Editor, National Desk
This story about the secret, drug-fueled party life of the dean of the University of Southern California medical school is jaw-dropping. Kudos to The L.A. Times for an amazing investigation. [LOS ANGELES TIMES »](
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[Weighing In](
[Justin Bank](
[Justin Bank]( Senior Editor, Internet and Audience
More partisan writing you shouldnât miss. Writers from across the political spectrum on the collapse of the health care bill and other news of the week.  [THE NEW YORK TIMES »](
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[Them and Us](
[Carolyn Ryan](
[Carolyn Ryan]( Assistant Masthead Editor
Why do so many people, when they hear the word âtrailerâ follow it immediately with âtrash?â David Joy, a dazzling 33-year-old Southern writer, takes readers to the lands of trailers and churches in his native North Carolina, writing beautifully and memorably âabout poverty and hopelessness, addiction and violence,â but also about friendship and laughter and strength and a kind of stubborn resilience. If one message of the 2016 election is that we must know worlds other than our own, we can ask for no better guide than David Joy. [BITTER SOUTHERNER »](
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[The Biology of Empathy](
[Lynda Richardson](
[Lynda Richardson]( Senior Staff Editor, Travel
This writer asks whether police brutality has âjumped the racial fenceâ with the killing of an unarmed white yoga instructor in her pajamas who called the Minneapolis police to her home for help. What I find deeply fascinating in this piece is the concept of [âmirror neurons.â]( When you see something happening to someone who looks like you, or reminds you of yourself, neurons in your brain fire off almost as though youâre experiencing it yourself. [DAILY NEWS »](
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[The Hunt](
[Kim Severson](
[Kim Severson]( National Food Correspondent
In Alaskaâs rural villages, where a bag of Doritos costs $11 and almost everyone is cash poor, a teenager caught a 57-foot whale. Before the internet, he would have been a hero, praised for his skill as a hunter and for the meat he brought to the village. But then the trolls found him. [HIGH COUNTRY NEWS »](
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[One Country, Two Chinas](
[Jennifer Jett]
Jennifer Jett
Senior Staff Editor, Hong Kong
Chinaâs imaginary Hu Line, named for the demographer that traced it, bisects the country diagonally between its most and least populated regions. On one side are Chinaâs industrialized cities and most of its infrastructure; on the other, pristine landscapes and most of the countryâs ethnic minorities. Tag along on a five-week road trip. [SIXTH TONE »](
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Murray Close/Lionsgate
[Star Turns](
[Gina Lamb](
[Gina Lamb]( Deskhead, Projects
Hereâs a conversation- starter. What are the best movie props of all time? This article will give you 100 to consider, spread across decades and genres, along with their back stories. The rankings here may be the subject of lively debate, but itâs hard to dispute the idea that objects can be powerful supporting players. [THRILLIST »Â](
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[Back in the Day](
[David Dunlap](
[David Dunlap]( Reporter, Architecture and the Environment
The Times is deliberately distancing itself from its past as a factory product â a thing of metal, muscle, cigarette smoke and sweat. There is almost nothing recognizable about the day in this newspaperâs life that was captured by the photographer [Marjory Collins]( on Sept. 9, 1942, and is preserved at the [Library of Congress](. But her lucidly narrative pictures of the newsroom, composing room, press room, reel room and mail room bring the exertions of that day so vividly to life you can almost smell the sweat.  [MASHABLE »](
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[Time Travel](
[Jennifer Parrucci](
[Jennifer Parrucci]( Senior Taxonomist
Frank Lloyd Wright took a dim view of air conditioning, even in scorching summers. In an excerpt from his 1954 manifesto, âThe Natural House,â that was printed in The Times 20 years after his death, the architect asserts that âthe extreme changes in temperature that tear down a building also tear down the human body.â  [THE NEW YORK TIMES ARCHIVES »](
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