but will she get in to Harvard?

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At Yael Farms, Anna gets plenty of exercise. She spends the day herding ibex, drawing water from a well, and moving heavy stones. After a Deuteronomy-friendly dinner of figs, unleavened bread and honey-drizzled ibex, she practices her Mandarin. Like many of the ibex farms sprouting up across the northeastern United States, Yael offers an intensive

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[alsoname]

I don't get it. Why is it called "The Most Emailed 'New York Times' Article Ever"? Is it implying that she trained her dog to email an article to millions of people, or something? I am so confused.

Weird article.

This part made me laugh, out loud:Levin believes that the ibex, a wild goat defined as kosher in the Book of Deuteronomy, is one of the healthiest foods in the world. “In Biblical times, men and women regularly lived for hundreds of years,” says Levin. “If we ate as our ancestors did, there’s no reason why modern man cannot do the same.”

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Maybe you could email her dog and ask him to send you her vegan brownie recipe.

I don't get it.

That's for sure.

[alsoname]

FLASHBACK TO JUNIOR HIGH

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I'm quite amused that you were able to read the entire thing without catching on that maybe there *isn't* actually a teenage girl on the Upper East Side who volunteers at a Chinese-speaking ibex ranch which promotes a diet made up only of foods that Moses ate while also helping a blogger in Brooklyn launch a Yiddish-musical-themed coffeeshop and teaching her Portuguese water dog (given to her by the President himself!) to twitter using an iPad. Oh, and all while applying to Harvard, Princeton, and Yale too. (Overachieving New York Jews are SO! AWESOME!)