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9 years ago+13 13 0Downtown Las Vegas Is the Great American Techtopia
Tony Hsieh, the charismatic CEO of Zappos.com, is turning the downtrodden, recession-hit heart of Las Vegas into an entrepreneurial playground.
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9 years ago+18 18 0Inside The Company That Got Rid Of Email
Well, almost.
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9 years ago+22 22 0Is Bike Sharing Just for Gentrifiers?
In Washington, D.C.—a city that is half African American–just 3 percent of Capital Bikeshare's users are black. Can advocates and city planners change that?
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9 years ago+15 15 0Inside the Bizarre Subculture That Lives to Explore Chernobyl’s Dead Zone
Each Friday, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or follow @roadskingdoms on Twitter. IVANKIV, Ukraine ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0The Exotic Animal Trade
The black market trade of exotic and endangered animals offers “profit margins that drug kingpins would kill for.”
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9 years ago+19 19 0A Cornell scientist came up with four ways to lose weight without dieting
The best diet may be the one you don’t know you’re on. If you change just one lifestyle habit, instead of struggling to power through a traditional “diet,” you can lose two or more pounds each week. If you change up to three habits, you may lose more ...
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9 years ago+21 21 0Wounded Warrior Project Under Fire
Over the past decade, it has become one of the celebrated charities in the country but is this veterans group everything it says it is?
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9 years ago+17 17 0Gabby Giffords's Gun-Control Ads Are Being Criticized Because They're Working
They even forced a GOP candidate to change her position.
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9 years ago+17 17 0Hackers Are Already Using the Shellshock Bug to Launch Botnet Attacks
With a bug as dangerous as the "shellshock" security vulnerability discovered yesterday, it takes less than 24 hours to go from proof-of-concept to pandemic.
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9 years ago+15 15 0The President and the Tow Truck Driver
Clarence Baugh has cleared a path for all presidents through New York since George H.W. Bush. But until this week, he’d never met one.
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9 years ago+20 20 0Exploring the Terry Gilliam Dystopian Trilogy
Warning: This article is best read after having seen all the films in the title. Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem is widely considered both an extension and revisitation of the dystopian themes the director so spectacularly explored in Brazil. Gillia ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0The (Almost) Uncatchable Robin Hood Of Greece
He's spent decades dodging the law. He's escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He's given millions to the poor. This is the story of how Greece’s most wanted man became a folk hero.
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9 years ago0 1 1Cirque du Soleil's SPARKED: A Live Interaction Between Humans and Quadcopters
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9 years ago+13 13 0The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero
How one of the biggest fraudsters of 20th century art made millions, conned a Nazi, and emerged a national hero.
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9 years ago+17 17 0Just taking my bear for a walk
Alexander Kharatokin walks with a 9-month-old brown bear named Masha after it bathed in the Yenisei River outside Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, on September 19, 2014. Kharatokin, a homeless man and a watchman of a mooring, lives in a wooden hovel near the ri ...
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9 years ago+13 13 0Opening Weekend of Oktoberfest!
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9 years ago+18 18 0Life in Ukraine during the supposed ceasefire is hellish
"We live like rats here."
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9 years ago+20 20 0U.S. Will Ban Deadly Landmines (Outside of Korea)
The announcement is part of the U.S.'s long-delayed commitment to an international treaty banning landmines on humanitarian grounds.
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9 years ago+19 19 0Feds say Bitcoin miner maker Butterfly Labs ran “systematic deception” [Updated]
In new civil suit, FTC alleges BFL spent millions on massages, guns, and more.
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9 years ago+19 19 0CARLESS CITIES
Could our cities adapt to become carless in the next twenty years?