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From Great Grandma to You | Science & Society

Epigenetic changes reach down through the generations By Tina Hesman Saey Web edition: March 20, 2013 Print edition: April 6, 2013; Vol.183 #7 (p. 18) Enlarge Credit: Bobbieo/Getty Images Like many…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2775 words)

Life Inside the Aaron Swartz investigation

A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. Quinn Norton's grand jury subpoena (Quinn Norton). Once your…
PUBLISHED: March 3, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6857 words)

How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System

Heat rises from the border road as a Border Patrol agent sits at an observation point along the international border separating San Luis, Arizona, from San Luis, Sonora, Mexico. (AP Photo/Matt York)…
AUTHOR:Lee Fang
PUBLISHED: Feb. 27, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3139 words)

God, Guns & Kombucha

It wasn't the deer-in-the-headlights look on Steve Stockman's face the day in April when he called a press conference to explain that he had gotten no advance notice of the bombing in Oklahoma City…
AUTHOR:Jim Simmon
PUBLISHED: June 22, 1995
LENGTH: 3 minutes (949 words)

Science Lags As Health Problems Emerge Near Gas Fields

Susan Wallace-Babb, wearing the oxygen mask she has to wear almost every day outside, walks with her dog at home in Winnsboro, Texas, on Sept. 12, 2011. (Erin Trieb for ProPublica) …
PUBLISHED: Sept. 16, 2011
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5330 words)

Riders on the Storm

Most of the hurricanes that strike the United States are born off the coast of West Africa, and nursed on tropical waters. As air warmed over the Atlantic surges up to meet the cool…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (844 words)

Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News

At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 10, 2011
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4431 words)
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