The New Yorker Fell Into the “Weird Japan” Trap
Elif Batuman was duped by a source’s fabrications about the country’s rent-a-family industry. What went wrong?
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It has not been a good year for anyone, but it’s been an especially bad year for the fact-checkers of highbrow magazines. In November,
The Atlanticappended an extraordinary editor’s note to a story written by Ruth Barrett, née Shalit, disclosing that Barrett, among other exaggerations and falsehoods, had encouraged a source to fabricate details about her life, including that the source had a son when she did not. Barrett came clean, sort of, admitting that “on some level I did know that it was BS” and “I do take responsibility.”
Nortek Air Solutions Saves Charity’s Holiday Season by Designing a Visiting Booth with COVID-19 Safe HVAC
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Custom-engineered visitation booth features 100-percent outdoor air, HEPA filters and UVC disinfection to protect Center of Family Love residents from COVID-19 during family visitation.
Okarche, Okla. (Dec. 15, 2020
) COVID-19 precaution was the Grinch that tried to steal the 2020 holiday season’s annual family and Santa Claus visitation from the intellectually and physically disabled residents at the Center of Family Love (CFL).
However, custom HVAC equipment manufacturer Nortek Air Solutions (NAS), Oklahoma City, helped preserve the holiday season with an innovative visiting booth solution it custom-engineered with cutting-edge, anti-viral ventilation.
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