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The Tipping Point
As a species, we stand at a precipice, and the choices we make in this moment determine a great many things. We are all participants, and now more than ever we need every hand on deck to right this ship and chart a better course. By Camille Seaman.
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The Murder House
A mysterious mansion hidden in the hills of Los Angeles remains frozen in time since December 6, 1959. During that dark night, a doctor murdered his wife in a frenzied hammer attack, and then killed himself. Fifty years later, visitors started reporting paranormal activity. Now the abandoned house is the focus of an Internet obsession. This is the true story of 2475 Glendower Place. By Jeff Maysh.
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I’m Sorry I Didn’t Respond to Your Email, My Husband Coughed to Death Two Years Ago
Hi! Today seems like a good day to answer some frequently asked questions... By Rachel Ward.
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The Bad Blood: My Life With Sickle Cell Anaemia
I have sickle cell. When you are sick, you do whatever you can to seem well, even cheat your way to it. By Sara Bivigou.
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Full Battle Rattle
After her boyfriend's death, dating felt a bit like a combat zone to Glendaliz Camacho, but the emotional protective gear she donned soon became obsolete.
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Firehouse Loses a Spotted Symbol of Healing
”Twenty immediately loved the fire truck, a classic Seagrave hook-and-ladder, and began accompanying the firefighters on all their calls, from raging blazes to false alarms.“ By Corey Kilgannon.
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The Last Rotation
Illness brings stillness to the final days of a young neurosurgeon. By Anna Reisman.
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Fireman Shostakovich
On 20 July 1942, Time magazine led with a story on ‘Fireman Shostakovich’. ‘Amid bombs bursting in Leningrad he heard the chords of victory,’ the caption on the cover said... By Anna Aslanyan.
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Playing for Time
Ryan Green is making a game that is as broken—as confounding, unresolved, and tragically beautiful—as the world itself. By Jason Tanz.
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RIP Hugh Walker, 1949 – 2016
My dad, Hugh Walker, died on Saturday. He was 66, and it was a complete shock. Obviously I’m still shattered by it all, but it’s important to me to celebrate the extraordinary person he was, and his impact on my life, as soon as I can. And when it comes to our relationship, gaming was always a feature. By John Walker.
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Cancer and Climate Change
I won’t live to see how civilization gets out of this mess. But I have hope. By Piers J. Sellers.
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A Deadly Deployment, a Navy SEAL’s Despair
“‘It’s hard with the secrecy and the way no one is willing to talk to us,’ said his sister, Bronwyn De Maso. ‘No matter how he died, if he did kill himself, he was a casualty of war.’” By Nicholas Kulish and Christopher Drewjan.
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Whiskey Lullaby
Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss
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I Will Follow You Into The Dark
Death Cab For Cutie
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The Wreck of Amtrak 188
What caused the worst American rail disaster in decades? By Matthew Shaerjan.
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A Father Searches For Justice Five Years After Tahrir Square
A father’s search for meaning and justice five years after his son was killed during the Tahrir Square uprising. By Jared Maslin.
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Dear Carey
A letter to a brother two decades after his death. By Shael Risman.
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Baby Doe
Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly two hundred years. Why have they failed? A political history of tragedy. By Jill Lepore.
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Charles Dickens and The Train of Death
The story behind the classic ghost story ‘The Signal-Man.’ By Paul Gallagher.
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By the end of my first year as a doctor, I was ready to kill myself
Doctor suicide is the medical profession’s grubby secret – but it’s unclear why some of those dedicated to preserving life silently plot their own deaths. By an anonymous junior doctor. (Jan. 5)
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