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A High School for the Homeless
Andrea and I sat cramped around a little two-top table at a Starbucks near her apartment, materials from her U.S. government class spread out before us. The handouts were photocopied news articles about teenagers pursuing The American Dream, the topic of an essay Andrea was writing. There was the Somali “Lost Boy” and his remarkable rise from child soldier to U.S. college student; there was a young woman who escaped the Taliban and made it to a U.S. high school, then college on a scholarship.
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Tales from the eBay Crypt
On eBay, do a search for “haunted” and you’ll get dozens of dolls, boxes, crystals, Ouija boards, and other pieces of regular-looking furniture that contain a little something extra special inside of them. These items are hawked by a slew of sellers, from full-fledged businesses that specialize in only selling ghost-enhanced artifacts, to regular folks who just want Uncle Wally’s old stuffed animal out of the house.
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The Decline of the American Actor
Is it time for American actors to take a hard look in the mirror? Earlier this year Michael Douglas mused darkly to a magazine interviewer, “I think we have a little crisis going on amongst our young actors at this point,” and Spike Lee, commenting on the “invasion” of black British actors, had some pithy observations on the subject, too...
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The Evolution of Alternative Medicine
When it comes to treating pain and chronic disease, many doctors are turning to treatments like acupuncture and meditation—but using them as part of a larger, integrative approach to health.
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How Crowdsourcing Turned On Me
My legions sprung to action the moment the digital analog of a starting gun fired. Strangers around the globe frantically dragged-and-dropped scanned shreds of paper on a virtual canvas, racing to reconstruct a shredded document.
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Whistle-blower: How doctor uncovered nightmare
Dr. Soe Maunglay's discovery of his employer Dr. Farid Fata's web of deceit and medical fraud would unleash a federal investigation. The result would save lives and collapse the medical empire of the long-esteemed oncologist, now awaiting sentencing in federal court.
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Blow Hard - The Rise And Fall of Scott Storch
Scott Storch raked in hip-hop millions. Then he snorted his way to ruin.
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TIL: Hermit lived in the forest for 30 years!
For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest
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Two Cheers for the Middle Ages!
Prejudice against the medieval runs deep. It is an adjective applied to atrocity, severe punishment, out-of-date technology (this “medieval” typewriter), and all illiberal attitudes. For many, the Middle Ages are ineradicably reprehensible, as well as comic: knights immobilized in their armor, fat monks panting after licentious nuns, ladies locked into chastity belts... By Eric Christiansen.
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Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
Barack Obama's former top cop cashes in after six years of letting banks run wild. By Matt Taibbi.
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I Spent Two Weeks Tracking A Secret Teen White Supremacist Messaging Group
Inside the lightning-fast, wildly absurd, occasionally terrifying world of app-based teenage white supremacy.
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The Big Lie That Helped Justify America’s War In Afghanistan
The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies...
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Glossip Prepares for Death After Supreme Court Defeat
Richard Glossip, the lead plaintiff in Glossip v. Gross, the Supreme Court decision that legalized a controversial form of lethal injection, now faces death — but he may well be innocent.
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An essay on explaining racism from the guy that wrote "Go the Fuck to Sleep"
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The millionaire who rescues migrants at sea
Appalled by migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, Chris Catrambone bought a boat and launched his own rescue mission. But as he discovered, there are pitfalls to going it alone.
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The Mixed-Up Brothers of Botega
Like something out of a daytime soap opera, two sets of identical twins are switched at birth and grow up in drastically different living situations. This article is pretty long but an interesting read.
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The End of A Black Life That Mattered
Jeff Sharlet embeds on Skid Row (a.k.a. a police “containment” zone) and re-creates a life whose only public recognition is in the tragic way that it ended.
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The Proposal
Dr. Gregory Konrath seemed like a good catch to his girlfriend. After she recorded the surgeon plotting to kill his ex-wife, police thought so, too.
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The Forgotten Village
Revisiting Steinbeck's California. By Gabriel Thompson.
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Why Can't Anyone Get Haiti's Cholera Outbreak Under Control?
An epidemic broke out in 2010—and even after years of working to curb the spread of the disease, it's still killing people. Five years on, cholera has killed nearly 9,000 Haitians. More than 730,000 people have been infected. It is the worst outbreak of the disease, globally, in modern history. Hundreds of emergency and development workers have been working alongside the Haitian government for five years, trying to rid the country of cholera...
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