#bookexcerpt — Public Fediverse posts

How NASA Testing Changed US Food Inspection Forever

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-alex-davies-kobuk-the-destroyer-nasa-food-testing/

Have you met Sgt. Harold Tyler yet? He's quite the character. His teammates call him Dirty Harry, but out in the field, it's Eastwood, because in the heat of battle, Dirty Harry is just too much of a mouthful. Eastwood's reply? "That's what she said."

https://medium.com/@micheleegwynn/do-broken-soldiers-get-a-second-chance-secondhand-soldier-free-first-chapter-sneak-peek-f91a46826811

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How ‘shramik’ trains added to the misery of the poor during the Covid-19 lockdown

An excerpt from Harsh Mander's ‘Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s Covid Tragedy’.

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https://scroll.in/article/1051873/harsh-mander-how-shramik-trains-added-to-the-misery-of-the-poor-during-the-covid-19-lockdown