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City Weekly’s annual trip to Greece found little enthusiasm abroad for America’s ‘greatness.’
Private Eye
Somewhere about 40,000 feet below me is the great icy expanse of Greenland. I’ve never been to Greenland, so I can’t say for sure. But as I look at the Delta Airlines monitor—returning to the USA after a month in Greece—it looks every bit the definition of an icy mass.
I will be past it soon. It’s not as big as it appears on the most common map (called the Mercator projection) due to a bit of map-making necessity in making round objects appear flat. No matter. While away, I met people from every corner of the globe—the real globe, not the flattened, distorted one.
Alas, however, I met nobody…
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