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Inside Apple's Plans for Its Futuristic, $5 Billion Headquarters

At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus for Apple (AAPL). Scarecrow thin…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2715 words)

Revolution Download

Among the rebels in war-torn Syria. Image courtesy Kyle Huynh Aleppo: January—February, 2013Incoming An explosion. Followed by another. Downloading, Nizar says in the dark. He applies the…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6286 words)

Requiem for a Dream

“This, I suppose, is the actual problem,” Swartz wrote, long before his suicide. “I feel my existence is an imposition on the planet.” Illustration by Michael Gillette.
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1019 words)

Hollywood’s Unknown Rescuer

On Dec. 27, 1938, a young woman in Berlin named Johanna Rockmann sat down and wrote a desperate letter to a stranger in California. In the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht, it was clear that…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2601 words)
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Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet 'There's Only One Rooster'

The first thing you smell at the Huy Fong Foods factory in suburban Los Angeles is the overwhelming aroma of garlic, a key ingredient in the company’s signature product: Sriracha Hot Chili…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 21, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2081 words)

Susan Orlean: Why I Write

February 2013 http://www.utne.com/literature/susan-orlean-why-we-write-ze0z1302zsau.aspx Edited By Meredith Maran In "Why We Write," twenty well-known authors candidly share what keeps them going and…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3156 words)

How a Working-Class Couple Amassed a Priceless Art Collection

By Jed Lipinski Herb Vogel never earned more than $23,000 a year. Born and raised in Harlem, Vogel worked for the post office in Manhattan. He spent nearly 50 years living in a 450-square-foot…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2109 words)

The Idealist

Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wiki Meetup on Aug. 19, 2009 Photo by Sage Ross/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons On Jan.
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 58 minutes (14593 words)

Jeffrey Goldberg, Washington’s Most Pugnacious Journalist

Jeffrey Goldberg is a natural and irrepressible funnyman. Drop a name, a topic into the conversation and the deadpan ripostes are immediate and unceasing. On his editor at the Atlantic, James…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1117 words)
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