posted : Saturday, May 19th, 2012

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Two men set out to transform 59 fifth-graders

Would they graduate from high school? Would they make it to college? What would they make of their gift?

posted : Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

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The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

Eight restorers built their own secret workshop in a storeroom, which they wired for electricity and Internet access and outfitted with armchairs, tools, a fridge, and a hot plate. During the course of a year, they painstakingly restored the Pantheon’s 19th- century clock, which had not chimed since the 1960s.

posted : Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

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How Doctors Die

It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us.

posted : Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

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How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis

But for the roughly 2-billion people across the world who spend more than 50 percent of their income on food, the effects have been staggering: 250 million people joined the ranks of the hungry in 2008, bringing the total of the world’s “food insecure” to a peak of 1 billion —a number never seen before.

posted : Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

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The Stoner Arms Dealers

Packouz calculated that even with the tight margins, he stood to make as much as $6 million on the contract. But he wasn’t so sure that AEY was going to be able to deliver. Diveroli had already hit the road, traveling to the Ukraine, Montenegro and the Czech Republic in search of suppliers. So Packouz would have to tend to most of the Afghanistan contract by himself — a job that any conventional defense contractor would have assigned to dozens of full-time, experienced employees.

posted : Thursday, March 24th, 2011

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The Blind Man Who Taught Himself To See

Bats, of course, use echolocation. Beluga whales too. Dolphins. And Daniel Kish. He is so accomplished at echolocation that he’s able to pedal his mountain bike through streets heavy with traffic and on precipitous dirt trails

posted : Saturday, March 12th, 2011

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Porn Machete Murder

According to set photographer Gia Jordan, Hill “would wear these hands, like, from a Halloween costume. That was his shtick. He’d jack off on the girl with the hands and when he’d come he’d yell, ‘Monster hands!’ It was It was ridiculous..”

posted : Sunday, February 27th, 2011

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A message from Johnny Cupcakes

I was not the only person who thought their research and odd obsession with my brand, was strange. Like, a Lifetime movie, jealousy-obsessed, serial-killer kind of strange. I kind of feel bad for them.

(Source: emptees.com)

posted : Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

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The Shadow Scholar

After I’ve gathered my sources, I pull out usable quotes, cite them, and distribute them among the sections of the assignment. Over the years, I’ve refined ways of stretching papers. I can write a four-word sentence in 40 words. Just give me one phrase of quotable text, and I’ll produce two pages of ponderous explanation. I can say in 10 pages what most normal people could say in a paragraph.

posted : Friday, November 19th, 2010

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