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Spring Break, Mumbai: How Surviving Sexual Assault Makes It Hard To Go Home Again
After having lived in the United States, going back home to India in 2013 means readjusting to more than modest dress and unwanted stares. It means confronting a past I'd rather forget.
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How radioactive poison became the assassin’s weapon of choice
Bad Blood: The mysterious life and brutal death of a Russian dissident.
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Against 'Long-Form Journalism'
When it comes to great magazine writing, what’s in a name?
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Top Science Longreads of 2013
I’m really optimistic about the future for long, deep, rich science reporting. There are more places that a publishing it, more ways of finding it, and a seemingly huge cadre of people who are writ...
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Cloak and Drone: The Strange Saga of an Al Qaeda Triple Agent
For years, Hassan Ghul was a critical member of Al Qaeda, until sources say he was turned and sent back to infiltrate the enemy. So why did a CIA drone kill him in Waziristan?
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Sinners in the Hands: When is a church a cult?
Twenty-seven-year-old Catherine Grove is a member of a small, insular, and eccentric church in East Texas. Her parents think she’s being brainwashed. She insists she’s being saved.
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The Murders at the Lake
In 1982 three teenagers were killed near the shores of Lake Waco in a seemingly inexplicable crime. More than three decades later, the tragic and disturbing case still casts a long, dark shadow.
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The Game That Saved March Madness
Princeton’s near-upset of Georgetown in a 1989 first-round game made sure Cinderella would always get invited to the ball.
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A Death in the Texas Desert
Residents of Terlingua mourned the murder of the town's most popular bar owner. Then, as conflicting accounts of the victim and his last night emerged, they started picking sides.
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Should Two Children Be Imprisoned For Plotting To Kill Their Classmates?
In Washington state, a 10- and 11-year-old were sentenced to years in a detention facility after being caught with weapons and claiming they were going to murder other kids at their school.
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The Dark Side Of Facebook, Where People Lie, Steal, And Make Millions
On Feb. 10, Jason Fyk received a strange Facebook message. “Bro.” The message had been sent by someone who wasn’t his friend on the social network, someone using the alias “Anthony.*” It was a name Fyk had come to know and dread. Minutes later, the traffic on his website, FunnierPics.net, nosedived. Google Analytics showed the number of active readers drop from 3,000 to zero instantly.
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In the Valley of Fire
How did a well-trained crew of professional hotshots come to abandon their designated safety zone and walk into a 40-foot-high wall of fire?
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El Dorado in the Amazon: A Deluded German and Three Dead Bodies
A German man claims to be an Indian chief in the Amazon rainforest. His tales of El Dorado even impressed Steven Spielberg and Jacques Cousteau. His tales would be harmless if there were three unsolved deaths connected to his fantasy world.
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Welcome To Utopia
On a remote island, a rich former executive and his wife wait for the world to end. They want others to join – but it's a one-way trip.
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Burger King Is Run by Children
Last summer a trim guy with wavy brown hair, high cheekbones, and a broad smile could be found making Whoppers, working the drive-through window, and scrubbing bathrooms at a Burger King in Miami. His name was Daniel Schwartz. He learned to make a Whopper in less than 35 seconds and blended in well with his fellow employees, except for the fact that Schwartz had a guy with a video camera trailing him. “I cleaned about 15 toilets in the past two days,” he boasted at one point, as if he’d just com
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Murder And Manifest Destiny On The Mosquito Coast
Fifteen years ago, a mysterious Greek entrepreneur bought and resold a series of tiny islands off the coast of Nicaragua, setting off a bizarre and tragic chain of events that included a reality-TV sensation and allegations of an insidious murder plot. The ensuing chaos brought to light a centuries-old question: Who does land really belong to?
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The Way of All Flesh
Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.
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Why Do Pirates Talk Like That?
Break out the "Arrrrr, me hearties!" because today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day! But where does our idea of pirate speech come from?
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The Uncatchable
He's spent decades dodging the law. He's escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He's given millions to the poor. This is the story of how Greece’s most wanted man became a folk hero.
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How Hungary’s Viktor Orban Is Slowly Destroying His Country’s Democracy
It’s a few days before the May 25 European Parliament elections, and the streets of Budapest are awash with colorful campaign posters urging Hungarians to vote for delegates to represent their country in Brussels. It would be a shining display of democracy in action, a comforting reminder of Hungary’s 10-year membership in the European Union after decades of repressive communist rule, if not for the fact that almost all the signs are for one party—the ruling populist-right Fidesz.
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