Karl Sakas had read an article in the Washington Post on hydrothermal vents several years ago, and wrote an essay which placed nationally in the duPont Challenge Essay Contest.
Kittle the younger's article ( "Manila Rules") is this issue's Memoir, an essay about an after-graduation year off that commenced with loafing around home in Greenwich and wound up, somehow, with him being introduced in the center ring at the world cockfighting championships in Manila.