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Leonard Cohen Unplugged

LEONARD COHEN UNPLUGGED BUZZ, LOS ANGELES (APRIL 1998) by Pico Iyer In an austere Zen monastery up on Mount Baldy, the once sybaritic, sex-obsessed poet has finally found his soul-mate. In the…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6342 words)

How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp

His first memory is an execution. He walked with his mother to a wheat field, where guards had rounded up several thousand prisoners. The boy crawled between legs to the front row, where he saw…
PUBLISHED: March 16, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4954 words)

One Woman's Ordeal with Texas' New Sonogram Law

Halfway through my pregnancy, I learned that my baby was ill. Profoundly so. My doctor gave us the news kindly, but still, my husband and I weren’t prepared. Just a few minutes earlier,…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2210 words)

It's time to kill investigative journalism

ShareThisThese are the speaking notes for a talk that former Yukon News editor Richard Mostyn gave to students attending the Canadian University Press National Conference on January 14, 2012 in…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3808 words)
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I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine. By Mac McClelland on Mon. February 27, 2012 3:00 AM PDT "Don't take anything that happens to…
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8264 words)

The Awakening

One evening recently in Rangoon, my friend Ko Ye (not his real name) arrived at the apartment where I was staying, brandishing the latest issue of the weekly newspaper he runs. It was, he…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3482 words)

Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke

Wen Yunchao at his apartment in Hong Kong. The cell
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1101 words)
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Asia's New Great Game

Slide Show: Asia's New Silk Road When geography changes -- as when the Suez Canal joined Europe to the Indian Ocean, or when the railroads transformed the American West and the Russian East…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 12, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1894 words)
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An American Drug Lord in Acapulco

August 25, 2011 1:35 PM ET …
PUBLISHED: Aug. 25, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1533 words)
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