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In this week's episode, we meet a couple who adopted twenty children, Elizabeth Kolbert primes us for the upcoming U.N. conference on climate change, and David Remnick goes surfing. (episode)
Roger Pasquier, a 67-year-old ornithologist, spends a good deal of time walking around with his eyes glued to the gutter, because he thinks it’s the best spot to find loose change.
When William Finnegan, a staff writer, isn’t covering conflicts in Mexico, Sudan, and Somalia, he's chasing waves. He recently gave David Remnick his first and only surfing lesson.
When the U.N. Conference on Climate Change convenes later this month, countries with different priorities and forms of government will attempt to agree on how to address global warming.
Larissa MacFarquhar, a New Yorker staff writer, spent time with the Badeaus, a family that adopted twenty children.