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Number of millions of straws used daily in drinks in the U.S.–laid end to end, enough to… Continue reading

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Compared to wine in a 750-milliliter bottle, wine in a magnum ages:

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“Every season is likeable . . . red wine and white; company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions—a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard—can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.”

—Virginia Woolf, “Montaigne” in The Common Reader.