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WILMINGTON, N.C. — They are old men now, the doctor and the lawyer, ancient adversaries confronting each other one last time. The doctor shuffles into the courtroom, his feet in socks and…

Rand at her Richard Neutra-designed house, in the San Fernando Valley, in 1947. She had already published “The Fountainhead,” and hoped to become a right-wing Steinbeck. Photograph by…

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about Kip Litton, a Michigan dentist who has been accused of repeatedly cheating in marathons and other distance-running events. In July, 2010, Kyle Strode, a…

In the eleven years since the American invasion of Afghanistan, Abdul Nasir has become a modern and prosperous professional. A worldly man in his late thirties, he smokes Marlboros, drives a Toyota,…

Published in the February 2012 "Things We Can All Agree On" issue, on sale soon The guys were coming over. That's what Fred and Charlotte Thomas both called them — "the guys," as though they…

13th December 2011 Here are Give Me Something To Read’s highlights of the year. This list is comprised of my favourites and reader favourites, selected from articles posted here in 2011…

Made to DisorderWhen mental disorders are a cultural product. Your therapist is probably giving you multiple personality disorder. Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti…

At Koenji Station, Tengo boarded the Chuo Line inbound rapid-service train. The car was empty. He had nothing planned that day. Wherever he went and whatever he did (or didn’t do) was entirely up to him. It was ten o’clock on a windless summer morning, and the sun was beating down. The train passed Shinjuku, Yotsuya, Ochanomizu, and arrived at Tokyo Central Station, the end of the line. Everyone got off, and Tengo followed suit. Then he sat on a bench and gave some thought to where he should go. “I can go anywhere I decide to,” he told himself. “It looks as if it’s going to be a hot day. I could go to the seashore.” He raised his head and studied the platform guide.

The task of reverse-engineering Stuxnet's complex payload fell to Nicolas Falliere in Symantec's Paris office. (Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired) Back at Symantec, Chien and colleagues were taking a crash…