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The Big Sleep
Scientists Pat and Peter Shaw died recently in a suicide pact. Their daughters tell the story of their plan - and their remarkable lives. By Julia Medew.
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Why did two parents murder their adopted child?
Asunta Fong Yang was adopted as a baby by a wealthy Spanish couple. Aged 12, she was found dead beside a country road. Not long after, her mother and father were arrested. By Giles Tremlett.
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Bad Blood the Color of Rubies
A jewelry feud, set in Jaipur and on Madison Avenue. By Eric Konigsberg.
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My Autistic Brother’s Quest for Love
He’s still searching. By Danielle Bacher.
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H. On heroin and harm reduction
“You are cured of your hepatitis after a course of Sovaldi, a new pill that clears the disease in 95 percent of cases. The price of this near-certain cure: $84,000. Each pill costs $1,000. You are fortunate to live in New York, the state where Medicaid coverage of the drug is the most generous. Many states pay for only the sickest patients. You are, relatively speaking, not that sick.” By Sarah Resnick.
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Coolie Women Are in Demand Here
“Grierson concluded that the female emigrants consisted of four groups: prostitutes, the wives of men who had already been to the colonies and had come back to fetch them, destitute widows with no one to take pity on them, and ‘married women who have made a slip, and who have either absconded from their husband’s house with or without a lover, or who have been turned out of doors by their husbands.’ The widows were blameless. The colonies would gladly take them.” By Gaiutra Bahadur. (Spr. ’11)
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How to level the playing field for working families
The Family and Medical Leave Act was a huge step forward for working families, but it’s not nearly enough.
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Blood Ties
A meditation on ancestry, Juan Ponce de León, and Florida’s Fountain of Youth. By Alex Mar.
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The First Time Texas Killed One of My Clients
An attorney pieces together a life cut short. By Burke M. Butler.
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Sin Will Find You Out
Megan Galbraith retraces the footsteps of her birth mother, who gave her up for adoption at nineteen years old in 1966 in New York City.
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How gentrification really changes a neighborhood
To neighbors, she was “Miss Anna,” and to her children, she was the strictest, strongest woman in Kirkwood. By Josh Green.
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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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Thicker Than Water: How Dan and Kate Suski Survived a Night at Sea
When a charter boat sunk in the Caribbean and spilled Dan and Kate Suski into the sea, the brother and sister’s bond would become the difference between life and death. By Matthew Halverson. (Oct. ’15)
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Madness Runs in the Family
New findings about schizophrenia rekindle old questions about genes and identity. By Siddhartha Mukherjee.
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Are picky eaters born or made?
To break the cycle of the mealtime stress fest, parents must face some bitter truths. By Alyssa Giacobbe. (Feb. 24)
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The savage descent of Mustang Sallie
A rebellious country girl studying high-level maths and science becomes a hooker and junkie roaming [Sydney’s] Kings Cross. How does this happen? By Stephanie Wood. [Autoplay]
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My Father and the Wine
“Here is what no one admits in their gleeful reports on the year of planting their own vegetables, baking their own bread, and brewing coca-cola with self-harvested cane sugar and home-grown cocaine: some undertakings require absolute, unyielding dedication, and not every member of the family or community can match it.” By Irina Dumitrescu. (April ’15) [PDF]
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The Reckoning
Fifty years ago, when Claire Wilson was eighteen, she was critically wounded during the 1966 University of Texas Tower shooting—the first massacre of its kind. How does the path of a bullet change a life? By Pamela Colloff.
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Mother for Hire
Emma moved from the Philippines to New York to make a living as a nanny for other people’s children—and hasn’t seen her own in sixteen years. By Rachel Aviv.
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Learning To Mourn In My Father’s Country
After my brother died and my father was partially paralyzed, my family traveled 7,000 miles in search of an old home, a new house, and the things we’d lost on the road in between. By Reggie Ugwu.
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