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Everything Is for Sale
Life along the longest yard sale in the world. By Helen Rosner.
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Shadows in São Paulo
Obsessed with an image of four men on a rooftop in Brazil, the author went on a quest to find its origins. By Teju Cole.
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Murder on the Appalachian Trail
In September 1990, a brutal double murder on the Appalachian Trail shocked the nation and left haunting questions about violence and motive. Earl Swift was hiking the route and knew the victims. Twenty-five years later, he went back to the woods of Pennsylvania, searching for answers that may never be found.
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The Journey: A refugee’s odyssey from Syria to Sweden
Hashem Alsouki risks his life crossing the Mediterranean, his heart set on Sweden – and freedom for his family. By Patrick Kingsley.
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Crossing Over
Claudia Delfin has spent her life shuttling between El Paso and Juárez—for a time, under the thick fog of drugs and addiction, as a sex worker and minor gangster. She’s been clean for eight years and now works as a drug counselor for a local nonprofit, hauling addicts out of the same slums where she used to score and delivering them back to life, if they’ll let her. By Jonathan Blitzer.
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History Is Who You’ve Lost
I, without knowing, dreamed parts of a truth. One part is this: my grandfather on my mother’s side was a murderer. Or was he? By Rita Gabis.
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The Last Days of Stealhead Joe
The Deschutes River fly-fishing guide called Stealhead Joe was an angling master with a long list of devoted clients. But as Ian Frazier, who fished with Joe last fall, learned, off the water, Joe’s life was a tangle of troubles that ultimately overwhelmed him.
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How to Make Yogurt in Manila
“Tita,” my eleven-year-old niece says. “Why are you always talking about yogurt?” ... By Grace Tatalusan.
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John McAfee: The Prophet of Paranoia
Can John McAfee, a gun-toting, vodka-swilling serial liar, save us from the hackers who want to spy on us and steal our identities? By Stephen Rodrick.
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The Rhythm of the Tide
When I heard data from an island had proven humans are still evolving, I had to visit. By Scott Solomon.
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NSFW A Wild Weekend in Florida (with tweets)
@_zolarmoon's story @TheDillion1 fittingly dubbed Jarrett and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Florida Trip.
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Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists
At McKamey Manor, people pay to be kidnapped, bound, masked, slapped, stomped on and held under water over an eight-hour ‘tour’. But unlike other ‘extreme haunts’ of the same variety, here there’s no safe word to make it stop. By Rory Carroll and Mae Ryan.
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The Doctor
Last year, Sudan's government bombed Dr. Tom’s hospital. He’s not leaving. By James Verini.
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Life is Rescues
Looking for trouble with a national team of emergency-response volunteers. By Nick Paumgarten.
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The War Nerd: That Russian airliner... bomb or loose screw?
As soon as I heard a Russian charter plane had crashed on its way back from Sharm-el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, I started trying to guess the odds. By Gary Brecher.
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The Displaced: Hana
At 12, she has lived one-quarter of her life in a debilitating state of suspension as a Syrian refugee in Lebanon. By Susan Dominus.
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What Shall We Love?
Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love. By Arundhati Roy. Part 4 of 4.
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The secret Soviet observatory still spying on space
Abastumani, hidden in the wild Georgian mountains, was a once-secret Soviet observatory. Tara Isabella Burton visits to see how it has adapted to post-Cold War life.
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Driving Alaska’s Dalton Highway
Finding that there can be solace in solitude in a 400-mile drive on one of America’s loneliest roads. By Alan Feuer.
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An Art Without an Artwork
A summer of chess in Bryant Park. By Tom Russell.
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