from an article in the new New Yorker:

Before the pandemic, six per cent of Detroit’s fourth graders met proficiency benchmarks in math, and seven per cent in reading, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

 

THESE NUMBERS WERE IN THE TIMES’ Pentagon Papers at 50 special section today:

-number of American soldiers who died in Vietnam:   

 58,220

-estimated number of Vietnamese soldiers killed:        

950,765

-estimated number of Vietnamese civilians killed:     

1 million to 2 million

 

16-PAGE special section. The Pentagon Papers at 50. You can likely find it on nytimes.com.

You still wear your mask inside the Strand bookstore. Some late afternoons when I’m finishing my hour walk, I stop in. When I walk along the outside on 12th Street, I take photos of people if they look interesting to me. Today some did.

 

from The New Yorker:

HOW ACT UP CHANGED AMERICA

The defiant group of AIDS activists was itself riven by discord. What can the movement’s legacy, of both ferocity and fragility, teach us?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-act-up-changed-america

In The Guardian: top 10 books for a greener economy. 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/02/top-10-books-for-a-greener-economy-ann-pettifor-green-new-deal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

I’ve been away. Still am until tomorrow. In Jackson, Wyoming where my youngest daughter and husband live with their three daughters. I brought two books. I haven’t read them really since I got off the plane. Too much to take in here. I’ve been here more than 50 times, since my daughter moved here 20-some years ago. Still I’m exhilarated by the place.