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FBI feared much-loved science fiction author Isaac Asimov was Soviet agent
Isaac Asimov was one of America’s most prolific and best-loved science fiction authors, publishing more than 500 volumes in a career that spanned five decades. But newly released papers show that, in the 1960s, he was unknowingly embroiled in intrigue more suited to a John Le Carre novel, as the FBI investigated him on suspicion of being a Soviet spy.
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Here's What Happened When 17 Ordinary People Met Steve Jobs
Everyone "knows" Steve Jobs, or thinks they do, in the sense that we saw him do those legendary on-stage product launches of the iPhone and the iPad. But what was Jobs like when he was off stage, when he wasn't changing history with Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Jony Ive and Tim Cook?
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Executed for murder, George Stinney, 14, may be re-tried 70 years after death
A 14-year-old black boy who was executed for the murder of two white girls in America's Deep South could be retried posthumously nearly 70 years after his death.
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PG-13 movies are now more violent than R-rated '80s flicks -study
PG-13 movies today — such as “The Hunger Games” or “The Avengers” — contain more violence than the R-rated films of the 1980s, according to a new report published today in the journal Pediatrics. In particular, gun violence in PG-13 films has tripled since 1985, the year the PG-13 rating was first introduced. And overall, violence in movies has nearly quadrupled since the 1950s.
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TIME Readers Share Photos of the Veterans Who Inspire Them
This Veterans Day, we asked our readers to help us honor those who serve by sharing their photos and stories
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DECLASSIFIED: US Armys Top Secret Arctic City Under the Ice
Project Iceworm was the code name for a top secret US Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The ultimate objective of placing medium-range missiles under the ice - close enough to Moscow to strike targets within the Soviet Union - was kept secret from the Danish government.
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10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out
In an exclusive with L’actualité, Ghyslain Raza talks for the first time about the infamous video and the dangers of cyberbullying
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George Orwell’s Five Greatest Essays
Every time I’ve taught George Orwell’s famous 1946 essay on misleading, smudgy writing, “Politics and the English Language,” to a group of undergraduates, we’ve delighted in pointing out the number of times Orwell violates his own rules—indulges some form of vague, “pretentious” diction, slips into unnecessary passive voice, etc.
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The birth of Xbox Live
How Microsoft's engineers created the world's first broadband-connected game console, based on interviews with the people who made it.
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Gorgeous Pictures Of The Holy Land From 120 Years Ago
A visitor to the Holy Land between 1890 and 1900 would have encountered a place that looked a lot like the pastoral setting described in the Bible and the Quran. A glimpse of this era is preserved through photochrom prints from the Library of Congress.
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The 10 Most Expensive Coins and Banknotes in the World
Money as a concept is a strange one. Often, the materials used to make our cash—paper or metals—are worth a fraction of the value of what’s printed or embossed on their faces. But sometimes, thanks to rarity, historical happenstance, or minting or printing errors, our cash is worth more than its face value. Occasionally, a lot more—as in the case of the 10 most expensive coins and banknotes in the world.
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Carlos Henrique Kaiser ~ Football's Greatest Liar
He is the greatest con-man in the history of football. Using charm and trickery as his weapons, he deceived major clubs into giving him a contract. His name? Carlos Henrique Kaiser – the Brazilian man who “wanted to be a footballer without having to play football.”
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New homeowner opens shelter sealed since 1961
With effort, Craig Denham heaves open the heavy metal door. He heads down the steep, thick concrete steps that are set in solid limestone. He takes a sharp left into the darkness, then another, before revealing an astounding time capsule preserved from the height of the Atomic Age.
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San Francisco Pre Earthquake-Fire: "A Trip Down Market Street" 14 April 1906
"Produced as part of the popular Hale's Tours of the World film series, the film begins at the location of the Miles Brothers film studio, 1139 Market Street, between 8th and 9th Streets; it was filmed 14 April 1906, four days before the devastating earthquake and fire of 18 April 1906, which virtually destroyed the entire downtown area..."
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Area 51 declassified: Documents reveal Cold War 'hide-and-seek'
Newly declassified documents reveal more detail about past use of the mysterious Nevada test site known as Area 51 and the concern for maintaining secrecy about the work done at the facility.
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Locked In the Cabinet: The worst job in Barack Obama’s Washington.
Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a brilliant innovator whose research fills several all-but-incomprehensible paragraphs of a Wikipedia entry that spans his achievements in single-molecule physics, the slowing of atoms through the use of lasers and the invention of something called an “optical tweezer.”
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The Deep History of Tattoo Removal
Humans have regretted their tattoos long before laser removal existed. Mairin Odle explores the history of tattoo removal in the early modern world, when the wrong ink could get you tortured.
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BMW restores classic Mini as it revives production in Netherlands
Mini production is set to kick off in the Netherlands next summer, and in celebration of that, a team from the VDL Nedcar factory has restored a classic, 1959 Austin Seven.
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Killing Conspiracy
Why the best conspiracy theories about JFK’s assassination don’t stand up to scrutiny.
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Who Made That Redskins Logo?
When the newly formed Boston Redskins traveled to Chicago’s Soldier Field to play the Bears on Oct. 1, 1933, the visiting players were barely recognizable. The owner, George Preston Marshall, ordered team members to smear themselves with face paint before going out onto the field.
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