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... And Still Champion
Jackie Robinson was special, but he was no Joe Louis. By Paul Beston.
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Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie
Jim did little revising and was proud of it. Rewriting was for people who hadn’t worked everything out early—not for Jim. By Terry McDonell.
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Postscript: Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016
The star architect, who died on Thursday, had to be twice as smart and three times as tough as her male counterparts. By John Seabrook.
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Sprawling Mural Pays Homage to Cairo’s Garbage Collectors
The artist eL Seed used more than 50 buildings as his canvas to celebrate the Egyptian capital’s trash collectors, who are largely viewed as second-class citizens. By Kareem Fahim.
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Hong Kong National Party: The course of HK Independence is irreversible
The concept of Hong Kong independence is no more a taboo for Hong Kong’s youngsters. By Benny Kwok.
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Jim Harrison, Poet, Novelist and Essayist, Is Dead at 78
A darkly comic master of the novella, Mr. Harrison was also known for his poems and essays on food. By Margalit Fox.
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“Despite the Handicap of Her Sex”
Dr. Cora Du Bois, American Bad-Ass of the OSS in Southeast Asia. By Jason S. Ridler.
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‘King of the Hill’: The Last Bipartisan TV Comedy
The Fox sitcom, which went off the air in 2010, managed to unite both liberal and conservative viewers by emphasizing its characters’ humanity in a changing world. By Bert Clere.
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A Witch is a Witch is a Witch
Yesterday was the first day of Spring, marked by the Spring Equinox, a complicated astronomical event and a perhaps even more complicated Wiccan holiday. What better time to dive along with Alex Mar into the history and personality of celebrated 20th century witch Doreen Valiente?
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Thank You
Sly and the Family Stone
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Pop!
A dermatologist finds fame among those for whom watching a pimple explode recalls the butterflies of a first kiss. By Robert Moor.
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The barrister who became a badger: why did Charles Foster decide to live like an animal?
He ate earthworms as a badger, tore open binbags as an urban fox, and was hunted by a bloodhound as a deer. By Anoosh Chakelian.
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The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice
“Count” Victor Lustig was America’s greatest con man. But what was his true identity? By Jeff Maysh.
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Our Nimble Lass
Back in March, a few of us here at the magazine got e-mails from friends who had seen an intriguing item listed on eBay. “1930s stripper/dancer scrapbook—Cincinnati,” the posting announced, “Jean Harlow’s double.” So we bought it. But who was she? By RJ Smith.
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Remembering Peggy Guggenheim, the Sexually Liberated Socialite Who Shaped Modern Art
She was divorced, globe-trotting Jewish aristocrat who championed modern art in the face of the Nazis and broke all the rules of the fussy society she was born into. By Nell Frizzell.
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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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A New Generation of Airships Is Born
More than half the world’s population has no access to paved roads, so engineers are using an old technology to bring trucking to the sky. By Jeanne Marie Laskas.
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When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages
In the early 1950s, a young lieutenant realized the fatal flaw in the cockpit design of U.S. air force jets. Todd Rose explains in an excerpt from his book, The End of Average.
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Were geniuses like Andy Warhol and Albert Einstein mentally ill?
There’s a fine line, it is said, between genius and insanity. But do the two always go hand in hand? In her new book, “Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder,” Claudia Kalb examines 12 historic figures through the lens of today’s knowledge of mental illnesses... By Larry Getlen.
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America’s Scandalous, Psychic, Forgotten First Female Presidential Candidate
Decades before women won the right to vote, Victoria Woodhull ran for president, started her own newspaper, and became one of America's first female stockbrokers. She also found time to advocate for free love and talk to ghosts. By Lyz Lenz.
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