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Company Eight
The true story of one man’s quest to reform firefighting in America.
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The Story of Orson Welles’s Unfinished Film, The Other Side of the Wind
A new book by Josh Karp charts the 45-year struggle to make Welles’s last movie.
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Apollo 13, We Have a Solution
Rather than hurried improvisation, saving the crew of Apollo 13 took years of preparation
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Is Slack Really Worth $2.8 Billion? A Conversation With Stewart Butterfield
The corporate messaging start-up Slack raised $160 million at a $2.8 billion valuation. Stewart Butterfield, the company’s chief executive, discusses Silicon Valley’s easy-money moment.
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The Never-Told Story of Marlon Brando’s Secret A-List Acting School
For 10 days in 2001, the actor held a workshop that drew such stars as Sean Penn and Nick Nolte. Tantrums, tightrope-walking, and the occasional bout of butt-baring ensued.
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John Carroll, Editor Who Reinvigorated the Los Angeles Times, Is Dead at 73
Mr. Carroll, a widely admired newspaper editor, restored the reputation and credibility of The Los Angeles Times in the early 2000s even as he fought bitterly with the paper’s corporate parent.
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Aneurysm
1. a morbid dilation of the wall of a blood vessel, usu. an artery...
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The Archdruid Report: The Delusion of Control
I'm sure most of my readers have heard at least a little of the hullabaloo surrounding the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si...
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Teen’s Facebook office parody gets out of hand
You might not think a bored teenager would know much about office life.
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“Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer” by Robin Varnum
The first lines of a book are usually a clue as to how good the rest of the book will be. Robin Varnum starts out her preface to the biography of the Spanish explorer with a bang: “I cannot claim that recorded U.S. history begins with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, but it very nearly does...” By Robin Martin.
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Raising the Dead
At the bottom of the biggest underwater cave in the world, diving deeper than almost anyone had ever gone, Dave Shaw found the body of a young man who had disappeared ten years earlier. What happened after Shaw promised to go back is nearly unbelievable, unless you believe in ghosts. By Tim Zimmermann. (2005)
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A Deadly Deployment, a Navy SEAL’s Despair
“‘It’s hard with the secrecy and the way no one is willing to talk to us,’ said his sister, Bronwyn De Maso. ‘No matter how he died, if he did kill himself, he was a casualty of war.’” By Nicholas Kulish and Christopher Drewjan.
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The Sánchez Insurgency
Inspired but isolated, Maria Quiñones-Sánchez is at war with her own party, Latino political bosses and half her [Philly] Council colleagues. Her fighting spirit could make her mayor someday — or leave her career in ashes. By Holly Otterbein. (Jan. 24)
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Is that a gorilla on the International Space Station?
Ape in space: astronaut Scott Kelly celebrates his year in space in an unusual way. By Chiara Palazzo.
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Miss Hobbs and the Gunslingers
“If the sheriff of Baker County would not close down Copperfield's saloons, the governor told the press, then he would send his five-foot-three-inch tall, 104-pound private secretary, Miss Fern Hobbs, to do the work.” By Joe Blakely.
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The Problem With Evidence-Based Policies
Many organizations, from government agencies to philanthropic institutions and aid organizations, now demand that programs and policies be “evidence-based.” But the way this idea is being implemented may be doing a lot of harm, impairing our ability to learn and improve on what we do. By Ricardo Hausmann.
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The Women Behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Among the institution’s earliest employees were female “computers” whose calculations made the first rocket launches possible. By Nathalia Holt.
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Firelight Along the Frontier
The fire department working a desolate New Mexico mesa is made up of 15 anarchists and recluses and led by a friendly giant whose job is to be an administrator in a place that defies administration. By Michael Canyon Meyer.
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Life Aboard a Renovated World War II Tugboat
With help from friends, a transplanted Philadelphian embarks on a voyage of discovery through Alaska's waters. By Brendan Jones.
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Solitude and Leadership
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts. By William Deresiewicz.
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