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What Makes Work Meaningful? Ask a Zookeeper
In interviews with zookeepers, researchers found that good feelings about work ran deeper than a standard survey metric like job satisfaction could capture.
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Ebola Survivors May Be the Key to Treatment—For Almost Any Disease
Ebola survivors’ immune systems now make antibodies to the virus. Those antibodies are, essentially, the ideal medicine. By Erica Check Hayden.
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A Woman in Uniform
Commissioned and written before the Grand Jury verdict and the NYPD officer killings, a supersmart female sergeant gives us her personal (and prescient) account of life inside the NYPD blues.
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Meet the NASA astronaut who is still excited to fly after 3 rockets exploded
Lindgren is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on July 22. But as it looks into a previous rocket failure, it hasn't given the green light yet.
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A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes
For 110 days and across two seas and three oceans, crews stalked a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher. By Ian Urbina.
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The Japanese Art of Self-Preservation
On the ancient Japanese Buddhist practice of self-mummification. By Erika Nesvold.
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There will be blood
Every year, roughly 40,000 people die in Minnesota. For some, it’s weeks or months before anyone finds their bodies. Meet the crew who comes in to clean up the mess. By Andy Mannix.
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They Helped Erase Ebola in Liberia. Now Liberia Is Erasing Them
Thirty young men spent months burning the bodies of the infected. A year later, many relatives and fellow countrymen still can’t forgive them. By Helene Cooper.
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Law enforcement bikers fought outlaw gang in deadly Denver melee
At least two or three of the Iron Order members sustained injuries, the club's lawyer said. By Tom McGhee and Kirk Mitchell.
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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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U.K. Pensions Secretary Quits Over Welfare Cuts for Disabled
Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative Party leader, resigned as U.K. work and pensions secretary in protest at planned cuts to welfare payments for the disabled, issuing a direct attack on the man behind them, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. By Robert Hutton.
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A toddler got meningitis. His anti-vac parents gave him an herbal remedy. The toddler died. Now his parents are on trial
“There’s nothing in the world that will bring him back,” David Stephan said of his late son, Ezekiel. “What good could possibly come out of this?” By Michael E. Miller.
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Why don’t we learn from our mistakes – even when it matters most?
Juan Rivera served ten years of prison time until DNA evidence overturned his sentence. But even now, some maintain his guilt. By Matthew Syed. (Nov. 13)
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Sydney H. Schanberg Is Dead at 82; Former Times Correspondent Chronicled Terror of 1970s Cambodia
Mr. Schanberg won a Pulitzer for covering the fall of the Lon Nol regime to the Khmer Rouge and inspired the film “The Killing Fields,” a recounting of his colleague’s survival during the genocide of millions. By Robert D. McFfadden. (July 9, 2016)
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High Times and Low Tides at Reefer Beach
Forty years ago, six young, Florida beach boys and a shrimper named Bubba smuggled more Jamaican weed into America than the nation had ever seen. Visit some old weed pirates — and the man who eventually ended their way of life. By Jodi Cash.
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Like a sick joke: [Michigan governor] Snyder appoints BP lobbyist to head MDEQ
It's a stunning look into the way the governor views the state's responsibility to protect Michigan's environment, and Michiganders' health. (July 15, 2016)
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The Devil Is Loose
In Laredo, Texas, paramedics help everyone and don’t ask questions. By Abe Streep.
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The Future of Disaster Relief Isn’t the Red Cross
Team Rubicon began in 2010 with a unique dual mission: providing disaster relief and giving struggling American veterans a vital sense of purpose. The program has a reputation for ignoring best practices and obliterating red tape, and it has already disrupted the aid industry. Now founder Jake Wood wants to take on the Red Cross. By Kyle Dickman.
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Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby
In the midst of a national crisis of police violence, Baltimore’s state’s attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city. She lost much more than just the case. By Wil S. Hylton.
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Superheroes Are Real
They jump out of planes. They fly onto the field of battle. They run, chainsaws in hand, into 20-foot flames against the ultimate opponent: Mother Nature. By Rachel Monroe. [Autoplay]
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