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TOPSHOT - Bangladeshi conjoined twins baby girls Rabia and Rukia sit in a hospital in Dhaka on July 25, 2017. Bangladeshi twins born conjoined at the skull will undergo a difficult and potentially dangerous operation to separate their bodies, surgeons said July 26 as they appealed for help from global medical experts. Doctors are trying to establish whether the one-year-old girls, born otherwise healthy in northwest Bangladesh, share the same brain, something that would vastly complicate the surgery. / AFP PHOTO / Munir UZ ZAMAN (Photo credit should read MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - Bangladeshi conjoined twins baby girls Rabia and Rukia sit in a hospital in Dhaka on July 25, 2017. Bangladeshi twins born conjoined at the skull will undergo a difficult and potentially dangerous operation to separate their bodies, surgeons said July 26 as they appealed for help from global medical experts. Doctors are trying to establish whether the one-year-old girls, born otherwise healthy in northwest Bangladesh, share the same brain, something that would vastly complicate the surgery. / AFP PHOTO / Munir UZ ZAMAN (Photo credit should read MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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The Things They Carried: The Afghan Field Medic

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Syrian residents of the rebel-held town of Douma, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, break their fast with the "iftar" meal on a heavily damaged street on June 18, 2017, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. / AFP PHOTO / Hamza Al-Ajweh (Photo credit should read HAMZA AL-AJWEH/AFP/Getty Images)
Syrian residents of the rebel-held town of Douma, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, break their fast with the "iftar" meal on a heavily damaged street on June 18, 2017, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. / AFP PHOTO / Hamza Al-Ajweh (Photo credit should read HAMZA AL-AJWEH/AFP/Getty Images)

Can Stories About Food Upend Familiar Narratives of War?

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TOPSHOT - Izabayo, 13 years old, leaves the boat where he spent the night with 10 other fishermen after another fishing night at Lake Kivu on July 17, 2017. Izabayo has worked with the fishermen since he was 8 years old. / AFP PHOTO / NATALIA JIDOVANU (Photo credit should read NATALIA JIDOVANU/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - Izabayo, 13 years old, leaves the boat where he spent the night with 10 other fishermen after another fishing night at Lake Kivu on July 17, 2017. Izabayo has worked with the fishermen since he was 8 years old. / AFP PHOTO / NATALIA JIDOVANU (Photo credit should read NATALIA JIDOVANU/AFP/Getty Images)

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HONG KONG, HONG KONG - JULY 13: People mourn the death of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office on July 13, 2017 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Chinese dissident, died of multiple organ failure at 61 while in Chinese custody, local authorities said in a statement on Thursday. The Chinese intellectual and activist was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power" but moved to a hospital in May because he was suffering advanced-stage liver cancer. (Photo by Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images)
HONG KONG, HONG KONG - JULY 13: People mourn the death of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo during a demonstration outside the Chinese liaison office on July 13, 2017 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Chinese dissident, died of multiple organ failure at 61 while in Chinese custody, local authorities said in a statement on Thursday. The Chinese intellectual and activist was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power" but moved to a hospital in May because he was suffering advanced-stage liver cancer. (Photo by Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images)

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HAMBURG, GERMANY - JULY 05: Prostestors dressed-up in grey clothes like Zombies attend an arts performance called '1000 Gestalten' demonstration prior the upcoming G20 summit on July 5, 2017 in Hamburg, northern Germany. In a two-hour show hundreds of actors took part in a creative public appeal for more humanity and self-responsibility ahead of the upcoming G20 summit. The G20 economic summit takes place in Hamburg July 7-8. (Photo by Friedemann Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)
HAMBURG, GERMANY - JULY 05: Prostestors dressed-up in grey clothes like Zombies attend an arts performance called '1000 Gestalten' demonstration prior the upcoming G20 summit on July 5, 2017 in Hamburg, northern Germany. In a two-hour show hundreds of actors took part in a creative public appeal for more humanity and self-responsibility ahead of the upcoming G20 summit. The G20 economic summit takes place in Hamburg July 7-8. (Photo by Friedemann Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)

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The Bookshelf: FP Staffers Review the New Releases

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TOPSHOT - People's Liberation Army soldiers prepare for the arrival of China's President Xi Jinping at a barracks in Hong Kong on June 30, 2017. Xi arrived in Hong Kong on June 29 for a three-day visit to mark the 20th anniversary of the city's handover from British to Chinese rule and to inaugurate new chief executive Carrie Lam on July 1. / AFP PHOTO / DALE DE LA REY (Photo credit should read DALE DE LA REY/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - People's Liberation Army soldiers prepare for the arrival of China's President Xi Jinping at a barracks in Hong Kong on June 30, 2017. Xi arrived in Hong Kong on June 29 for a three-day visit to mark the 20th anniversary of the city's handover from British to Chinese rule and to inaugurate new chief executive Carrie Lam on July 1. / AFP PHOTO / DALE DE LA REY (Photo credit should read DALE DE LA REY/AFP/Getty Images)

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JUNE 18: Dancers are blurred performing during a traditional Festas Juninas (June Festivals) party at the Salgueiro samba school on June 18, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio Mayor Marcelo Crivella, a religious conservative, has announced plans to cut funding for the famed samba school Carnival parades by fifty percent for the 2018 Carnival amidst an economic crisis in the city. Organizers from the samba schools announced if they don't receive proper funding they will have to cancel the parades for 2018. Carnival annually draws around 1 million tourists to Rio. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JUNE 18: Dancers are blurred performing during a traditional Festas Juninas (June Festivals) party at the Salgueiro samba school on June 18, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio Mayor Marcelo Crivella, a religious conservative, has announced plans to cut funding for the famed samba school Carnival parades by fifty percent for the 2018 Carnival amidst an economic crisis in the city. Organizers from the samba schools announced if they don't receive proper funding they will have to cancel the parades for 2018. Carnival annually draws around 1 million tourists to Rio. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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People walk past designs created using different varieties of rice in a paddy in Shenyang in China's northeast Liaoning province on June 14, 2017. Varieties of different coloured rice were used in the designs, which aim to promote tourism in the area and boost the income of local farmers. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
People walk past designs created using different varieties of rice in a paddy in Shenyang in China's northeast Liaoning province on June 14, 2017. Varieties of different coloured rice were used in the designs, which aim to promote tourism in the area and boost the income of local farmers. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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TOPSHOT - A Pakistani man dries Seviiyan (thin vermicelli), which is used for the preparation of 'sheerkhurma', a traditional sweet dish prepared by the Muslim community during the holy month of Ramadan, at a factory in Lahore on June 8, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI (Photo credit should read ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - A Pakistani man dries Seviiyan (thin vermicelli), which is used for the preparation of 'sheerkhurma', a traditional sweet dish prepared by the Muslim community during the holy month of Ramadan, at a factory in Lahore on June 8, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI (Photo credit should read ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images)

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TOPSHOT - A couple protects themselves with an umbrella while walking under heavy rain in Moscow's Alexander Garden on May 29, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - A couple protects themselves with an umbrella while walking under heavy rain in Moscow's Alexander Garden on May 29, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)

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A woman and baby wearing face masks walk in the Forbidden City during heavy pollution in Beijing on February 28, 2013. Beijing residents were urged to stay indoors as pollution levels soared before a sandstorm brought further misery to China's capital. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
A woman and baby wearing face masks walk in the Forbidden City during heavy pollution in Beijing on February 28, 2013. Beijing residents were urged to stay indoors as pollution levels soared before a sandstorm brought further misery to China's capital. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

As Environmental Catastrophe Looms, Is it Ethical to Have Children?

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TOPSHOT - An opposition demonstrator plays the violin during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, on May 24, 2017. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro formally launched moves to rewrite the constitution on Tuesday, defying opponents who accuse him of clinging to power in a political crisis that has prompted deadly unrest. / AFP PHOTO / FEDERICO PARRA (Photo credit should read FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - An opposition demonstrator plays the violin during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, on May 24, 2017. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro formally launched moves to rewrite the constitution on Tuesday, defying opponents who accuse him of clinging to power in a political crisis that has prompted deadly unrest. / AFP PHOTO / FEDERICO PARRA (Photo credit should read FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images)

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BAKU, AZERBAIJAN - MAY 18: Neda Shahsavari of Iran competes against Ozge Yilmaz of Turkey in the Womens Table Tennis Quarter Final during day seven of Baku 2017 - 4th Islamic Solidarity Games at the Sarhadchi Arena on May 18, 2017 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN - MAY 18: Neda Shahsavari of Iran competes against Ozge Yilmaz of Turkey in the Womens Table Tennis Quarter Final during day seven of Baku 2017 - 4th Islamic Solidarity Games at the Sarhadchi Arena on May 18, 2017 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

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