about all this thanks to, ironically, a digital-subscription initiative. I had long ago let my print subscription to The New York Times lapse when the paper introduced a new paywall last year. I decided to resubscribe to the Sunday print edition, because it came with "All Access Digital" (everything the Times publishes online every day, hour, minute -- accessible across all my devices). In doing so I rediscovered the joy of, well, print discovery. Every Sunday, diving into the inky broadsheet, I'm reminded of the enduring value of a tightly edited, coherent, cohesive, thoughtful package. And I'm reminded that print can still be an important part of a balanced media diet. It's all about focusing not on whatever I happen to click on next, but on what an international team of editors, graphic artists, journalists, photographers and illustrators have assembled with great care and intention. In surrendering my attention to what they've created, I'm reminded how siloed my web-based media consumption actually is. For instance, I get way more schooled about international news by reading the printed Times on the weekend. There's just so much I devour in the Sunday paper that I know I'd never stumble across on the web -- like a recent fascinating report on the effects of a year-old French law banning the wearing of niqabs (face coverings worn by some Muslim women) in public and an eye-opening dispatch from Hanoi about grassroots protests over economic inequality in Vietnam, both of which I was moved to