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  "path": "/issues/2026-5-16/the-air-mail-diary",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  A whole-earth catalogue.\n\n##### The infamous Macron slap, Olympic sperm racers, Céline Dion’s G.D.P. bump, and other strange stories from around the globe …\n\nBy George Kalogerakis\n\nWe’re still processing the news from **Al Bahnasa** —site of the ancient city of **Oxyrhynchus?** Just south of **Cairo?** —where,_Scientific American_ reported, an excavation team found “a sheet of papyrus inside [a] mummy’s abdomen that contained text from the _Iliad,_ the ancient Greek poet **Homer’s** epic account of the siege of **Troy.** ” Just a “passage,” fortunately, not all 15,693 lines. But that’s still a lot to swallow. Why don’t you all go on ahead.\n\nMore than 10,000 men have reportedly applied to compete for a prize of $100,000 here next month in the **Sperm Racing Olympics,** in which “semen samples from 128 men, each representing a different country, go head-to-head on a microscopic race track,” said the READ ON",
  "title": "The AIR MAIL Diary"
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