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To win a playoff game after two consecutive years of having the NFL's worst record is a remarkable achievement

  To win a playoff game after two consecutive years of having the NFL's worst record is a remarkable  achievement The only other comparable coaching job for the Jaguars was Tom Coughlin guiding them to the AFC Championship game in 1996, the second year of franchise existence. … What a poignant moment at the NFL Honors program Thursday to have Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who almost died on the field, on stage delivering a powerful message about hope and thankfulness, as all the medical people who saved his life stood behind him. Nothing that happens in the Super Bowl can top that visual. It took way longer than his exemplary career deserved, but former Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Ken Riley, who lived in Jacksonville for 12 years and served as a substitute teacher at Raines High in the 1990s, was one of three senior candidates elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Riley, who has the fifth-most interceptions (65) in NFL history , waited 34 years after first becoming ...
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Fundamental Feasts For some cultures, eating off the land is—and always has been—a way of life.

  Fundamental Feasts  For some cultures, eating off the land is—and always has been—a way of life. It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening for the voice of her husband as he returns from the forest with his scrawny hunting dog. With an infant girl nursing at her breast and a seven-year-old boy tugging at her sleeve, she looks spent when she tells me that she hopes her husband, Deonicio Nate, will bring home meat tonight. “The children are sad when there is no meat,” Maito says through an interpreter, as she swats away mosquitoes. Nate left before dawn on this day in January with his rifle and machete to get an early start on the two-hour trek to the old-growth forest. There he silently scanned the canopy for brown capuchin monkeys and raccoonlike coatis, while his dog sniffed the ground for the scent of piglike peccaries or ...
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