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What the nose knows
Profound writing about how losing your sense of smell can fundamentally change the way you relate to other people.
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The Cage of Coin
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Waiting for the ship that could save a man's life
The closest land mass to Tristan da Cunha is more than 2,000km away - Chris Carnegy was on the island when a medical emergency brought home how remote the community is.
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A Grief So Deep It Won’t Die
She had taken care of her husband for the last eight years of his life, through his blindness, through cancer and heart failure. After he died in 2002, she sold the Long Island house they’d loved and shared, finding it too filled with memories, and moved to their country home in upstate New York.
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Meet the Engineer Who Became an Astronaut—15 Years Later
Clayton Anderson, "the ordinary spaceman," talks his long journey to the ISS, the view from 250 miles above the Earth, and the extraordinary things on the horizon for space travel. After so many years of trying to get into the astronaut program, what was it like when you finally got up on the shuttle and experienced the micro-gravity for the first time? Clayton Anderson: I don't know honestly if I thought back to the 15 tries to apply. I think that my 15 attempts...
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One Hundred Years of Arm Bars
A family epic spanning the GRACIE JIU-JITSU dynasty’s generations of combat and betrayal, from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC.
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'I've never felt more isolated': The man who sold Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion reveals the empty side of success
It's the dream of many a startup founder: Make something people love and wind up wildly rich, selling the company for billions. But after you do that, what comes next? It could be a sense of hopeless isolation. So says Minecraft founder Markus Persson (aka "Notch") in a strangely revealing series of tweets. Microsoft bought Minecraft for $2.5 billion almost a year ago, and the founder did not join Microsoft after the sale.
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The busboy who cradled a dying RFK has finally stepped out of the past
In June, Juan Romero did something he hadn't done in decades. He celebrated his birthday, going out to dinner with his family in San Jose. "I always dreaded when June was coming up," said Romero, 65, who has struggled for most of his adult life to let go of his crippling memory of an American tragedy.
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The Misanthropic Genius of Joy Williams
A few years ago, the writer Joy Williams’s favorite church needed to dispose of a few extra pews after a renovation. Williams attends the church only in April and October, when her frequent cross-country drives take her to Laramie, Wyo., but she wanted a pew anyway. She borrowed a trailer, got a friend to help her load the pew and drove a thousand miles, pulling it behind her enormous Bronco, her two German shepherds...
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“Mama Merkel” Opens the Door to Syrian Refugees as Most Germans Cheer
MUNICH — A stout Bavarian music teacher brought homemade blueberry crumble because she thought “the refugees must be hungry.” A young German mother coaxed smiles out of terrified children with balloons.
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These are the people Dylann Roof stayed with before the Charleston church shooting
Equal parts insightful and depressing.
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Man who couldn't remember name when found 11 years ago finally discovers identity
For the past 11 years, a man has been living without knowing who he really is. According to WJXT, the man was found beaten and left for dead outside of a Burger King in 2004 in Jacksonville, Florida. He had no memory of who he was. Doctors said he had retrograde amnesia. He called himself Benjamin Kyle, BK, for short. He appeared on both local and national television shows to see if anyone might recognize him.
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I’m a pedophile, but not a monster
I'm attracted to children but unwilling to act on it. Before judging me harshly, would you be willing to listen?
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The woman who saved her rapist's life
A woman made the choice to save the life of her rapist. Why? Susan Copestick, 56, manages to remain calm while reliving the moment in November last year when she effectively chose to save the life of Peter Drummond. Her former partner had held her at knifepoint and sexually assaulted her earlier that day. "There was a split second when I was watching for Peter to stop breathing, waiting for him to die. Then I stopped myself and thought 'no'.
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Mysterious Arrival: The Man From Taured
The man presented an authentic looking European passport and carried European currency from several countries and carried himself in a professional manner but that wasn’t what alerted the authorities. No matter how much they had searched, the Customs agents could not find the European country that had issued him the passport anywhere in their maps. The unheard country of Taured. When they asked the Caucasian man to point on their map where Taured was located, he answered them in fluent Japanese.
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Raped, pregnant and afraid of being jailed
In the United Arab Emirates, migrant women are routinely jailed for having sex outside marriage. Desperate to leave the country, one Filipina maid who was raped found a dramatic way to escape. There wasn't much in the village Monica left behind. No clinic, no school, no street lights - just a crossing of dirt roads and a few concrete houses roofed with tin. What really troubled her, though, was the lack of prospects.
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I found my father living on the street
Diana Kim has spent the past 12 years photographing people living on the streets of Hawaii. But her project to humanise homelessness suddenly became very personal when her own father ended up living rough. Kim, a law student, explains how, in an effort to save him, she turned her camera on him. My father introduced me to photography. He was a landscape photographer and I remember my early years sitting...
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More than a decade after release, they all come back
Silvestre Segovia had vowed many times over that he would never return to solitary confinement. Languishing in the vast Texas prison system's solitary confinement wings for more than a decade had exacted a heavy emotional toll. And there was so much to discover about a new world that confronted him on a much-anticipated exit that chilly morning, Nov. 15, 2002. A loyal girlfriend waited 255 miles away. There might even be a market for the catalog...
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Thomas Quick: The extraordinary story of the serial killer who wasn't
Two decades ago, a 41-year-old patient in a psychiatric hospital made a shocking confession. Sture Bergwall stunned his therapist by admitting he was responsible for one of Sweden's most notorious unsolved murders, that of 11-year-old Johan Asplund, who had vanished on his way to school in 1980 and whose body had never been found. Police were called to interview Bergwall, but that was not the end of his disturbing mea culpa.
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Armistice Day 2015: My grandfather's secret World War Two past
I was 13 years-old before I first asked my grandfather what he did in the Second World War. Charged with finding a veteran to interview for a history project at school, and armed with the knowledge he’d been a Royal Marine, I ambushed him during a visit to our house in Suffolk. Up until that point, I could barely imagine Grandpa sporting anything other than a cravat, blue jumper and thick-rimmed glasses. If asked to describe him I would probably have said...
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