He [Tom Vanderbilt] recalls a Damascene moment as a teenager in the 1980s, when he “quickly became a fan of this strange cacophony” of “punk rock and other eclectic forms of music,” though the most enthusiasm he musters in its favor is to note that it “sounded little like anything I had heard before.”

We began our six-day visit to China in Beijing on a cloudy, overcast morning following another overnight stopover on Guam.

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The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil.