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"Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez: From the Bowels of Hell

"Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez: From the Bowels of Hellby Joseph GeringerCrescendo of TerrorLate in the 20th Century, Hell glutted on humanity. Its first bloodletting of that season of the Devil…
LENGTH: 43 minutes (10881 words)

Nadal vs. Djokovic: Metal Gods on Fire

A running diary of an instant tennis classicRafa Nadal's best matches against Novak Djokovic are the closest tennis gets to a metal concert — sweaty, technically proficient, fury-bellowing men…
PUBLISHED: June 7, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4389 words)

Being cynical: Julian Assange, Eric Schmidt, and the year's weirdest book

Stephen Colbert: Is this new digital age going to be good? Eric Schmidt: Yes! Stephen Colbert: The very first sentence of this damn book is, "The internet is among the few things humans have built…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: June 7, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2121 words)
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The Citizen Journalist

Andrew Breitbart, June 6, 2011. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images This is an excerpt from George Packer’s
PUBLISHED: June 4, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (848 words)
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Thirteen Wives

I have thirteen wives. We all live together in a sprawling Queen Anne house with half a dozen gables, two round towers, and a wraparound porch, not far from the center of town. Each of my wives has…
PUBLISHED: May 27, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1088 words)

Quade Cooper enthralls and frustrates in Super Rugby

Quade Cooper's late surge helped the Reds to victory last weekend. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP It was a weekend of last rites in the Super 15. The Blues won't make the finals; their play-off hopes –…
PUBLISHED: June 4, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2012 words)

In the Crosshairs

On the morning of August 2, 2006, three Navy SEALs walked onto the roof of a four-story apartment building in Ramadi, in central Iraq. One of them, a petty officer and a sniper named Chris Kyle, got…
PUBLISHED: June 3, 2013
LENGTH: 50 minutes (12694 words)

Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia

In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded…
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5121 words)

Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself On Live Television?

Image by John Gara/Buzzfeed Friday, Sept. 28, 2012Denny's, 75th Avenue and Interstate 10, Phoenix, about 10:45 a.m.No one knows for sure how long Jodon Romero
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4970 words)
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