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He was the worse player for four of the five sets. He did not conjure a break point until deep into the fourth. He was down two match points at 8-7 in the fifth. His opponent served better, volleyed better, returned better, hit 40 more winners and won 14 more points. And yet Djokovic still emerged victorious. Brad Gilbert once wrote a book called Winning Ugly. This was the director’s cut.

 Djokovic has time on his side as he eyes Federer’s grand slam haul | Sport | The Guardian

Camilleri was 66 when his first bestseller, La Stagione della Caccia (1992, published in English in 2014 as Hunting Season), appeared, and 68 when he published the first novel featuring the Sicilian detective, Salvo Montalbano, who was to bring him international renown. But that was only the half of it. Success inspired Camilleri to a frenzy of literary activity at an age when most writers are in tranquil decline. Between 1994, when his first Montalbano story appeared, and his death, at the age of 93, he not only published 30 books detailing the exploits of his grouchy sleuth, but more than 60 others.

 Andrea Camilleri obituary | Books | The Guardian

“It’s a very odd scenario,” he says. “You have a safe and effective vaccine licensed by the FDA and anti-vax campaigners reject it. But on the other hand, you have people so desperate for protection that they’re even willing to take a canine vaccine that has never been studied in humans.”

 Lyme disease: is a solution on the way? | Science | The Guardian

“The clothing industry is the second largest polluter in the world…second only to oil,” the recipient of an environmental award told a stunned Manhattan audience earlier this year. “It’s a really nasty business…it’s a mess.” While you’d never hear an oil tycoon malign his bonanza in such a way, the woman who stood at the podium, Eileen Fisher, is a clothing industry magnate.

 It’s the second dirtiest thing in the world — and you’re wearing it – Alternet.org

Barrios keeps thing simple and proudly Andalucían. “I make it with a tiny bit of garlic, onion, half a cucumber, one or two green peppers, tomatoes, good salt, sherry vinegar and good extra virgin olive oil.”

 ‘Gastronomic terrorism!’ How the cucumber has sliced Spain in two | World news | The Guardian