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30 Jun

Children are taught to identify traitors. Neighbors are urged to report one another. Officials are pressed to pledge their loyalty.

One year after it imposed a national security law, China has remade Hong Kong. This is how the city’s freedom was taken. nyti.ms/3h3T6Zi

Armed with the sweeping national security law it imposed one year ago, Beijing has pushed to turn Hong Kong into another mainland megacity, where dissent is immediately smothered. The very texture of the city’s once vibrant daily life is under assault. nyti.ms/3AfD1Hu

Teachers are told to imbue children with patriotism through 48-volume books called “My Home Is in China.” Libraries have removed dozens of books, including one about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela. Police officers goose-step in Chinese military fashion.

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29 Jun

How unusual is the heat that’s been smothering the Pacific Northwest? Off the charts. nyti.ms/3h0XrN0

The recent extreme temperatures were widespread and intense, in some places surpassing records by double digits. This heat wave is also unusual because it occurred earlier than most. nyti.ms/3h0XrN0

Climate is naturally variable, so periods of high heat are to be expected. But in this case, scientists see the fingerprints of climate change, brought on by human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. nyti.ms/3h0XrN0

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29 Jun

Alarms blared across an intensive care unit in Delhi, India. Over two dozen Covid patients on ventilators couldn’t breathe. Staff members did all they could, but it wasn’t enough — the hospital had run out of oxygen. Within seven hours, 21 people died. nyti.ms/3x60CIT

As a devastating second wave of Covid gripped India, hospitals ran out of beds and critical supplies, contributing to the deaths of untold thousands of people. By one count, oxygen shortages alone have killed at least 600 people over the past two months. nyti.ms/35ZKY5Q

Despite knowing how vulnerable the country was, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and local officials failed to prepare for the second wave in India, according to interviews and a review of government documents by The New York Times. nyti.ms/35ZKY5Q

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25 Jun

Math + art = fun

Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers," have created a suite of mathematically inspired fonts that are also puzzles. nyti.ms/2UCWEsS

One font, a homage to the mathematician and juggler Ron Graham, who died in 2020, draws its letters from the patterns of motion traced by balls thrown into the air during juggling tricks. nyti.ms/2UCWEsS

Another font, proposed by the computer scientist Donald Knuth, has as its distinguishing characteristic that all letters can be “dissected” — cut into pieces and rearranged — into a 6-by-6 square. nyti.ms/2UCWEsS

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25 Jun

Afghanistan’s elite forces boarded a helicopter and prepared for a night raid.

Their objective: to dismantle a bomb-making factory in one of the country’s most volatile provinces.
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Night missions are seen by Afghan officials as key to hitting Taliban forces when they are not expecting it and to disrupting future attacks.

But these tactics have had arguable success as insurgencies adapt and endure. nyti.ms/3h8nxfR

The elite troops’ efficiency is a far cry from most Afghan security forces, who face dwindling supplies and constant attacks.

As U.S. forces prepare to leave, the importance of the specialized units has increased, but their overuse could mean they become less effective.

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25 Jun

Tourists, dressed in replica Red Army costumes, raise their right fists and pledge their allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party.

This is “red tourism” in China, where people flock to historic sites to absorb a sanitized version of the party’s history. nyti.ms/2Ut88Pq

A surge in “red tourism,” in which visitors are shown a carefully censored, Instagram-friendly history of the Chinese Communist Party, comes as China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has stepped up pro-party propaganda within the country. nyti.ms/3zVt7e7

On display: chairs used by Xi Jinping and others when they visited Mao Zedong’s mountain home in Yan’an. Not on display: reminders of bloody party purges, the millions who starved to death during the Great Leap Forward or the persecutions and deaths of the Cultural Revolution.

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