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The Disappeared

The author, photographed in London in 1994, five years after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence forced him into hiding. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (985 words)

Why sex could be history

Aarathi Prasad: 'Having a child in a place that’s not in your body is not necessarily bad for bonding.’ Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Over tea at her north London home, Aarathi Prasad is…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2257 words)

The Deepening Spanish Debt Crisis

Two mounted policemen wait before a Bankia shareholders meeting in Valencia, Spain on Friday, June 29, 2012. Bankia, SA, which crumbled under the weight of bad real estate loans and was recently…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2928 words)

Drugs: The Rebellion in Cartagena

Carolyn Kaster/AP Images President Obama with the Colombian singer Shakira and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in Cartagena, where he was attending the Summit of the Americas, at which leaders…
PUBLISHED: June 7, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (491 words)

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The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever

Jeffrey Mitchell, a volunteer firefighter in the suburbs of Baltimore, came across the accident by chance: A car had smashed into a pickup truck loaded with metal pipes. Mitchell tried to help, but…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6125 words)

Gilad Shalit and the Rising Price of an Israeli Life

Gilad Shalit's military ID from 2005. On the afternoon of June 27, 1976, Palestinian and
PUBLISHED: Nov. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7998 words)

The Cruelest Show on Earth

Bullhooks. Whippings. Electric shocks. Three-day train rides without breaks. Our yearlong investigation rips the big top off how Ringling Bros. treats its elephants. By Deborah Nelson on Mon.…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7819 words)

The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret

On the cut-and-kill floor of Quality Pork Processors Inc. in Austin, Minnesota, the wind always blows. From the open doors at the docks where drivers unload massive trailers of screeching pigs,…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1460 words)
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