FIRST LINKS — 6.27.14

Gifts of $300 to Homeless Are Reduced to a Lunch
Kirk Semple, The New York Times

Lost Causes
Jesse Dukes, Virginia Quarterly Review

Nun with colorful history, New Mexico ties nominated for sainthood
Anne Constable, Santa Fe New Mexican

The Supreme Court Strikes Down Massachusetts’s Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Law
Abby Ohlheiser, The Wire

Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Nautilus

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