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NYT: Here Is What Happens When You

Lindsay Lohan moves through the Chateau Marmont as if she owns the place, but in a debtor-prison kind of way. She'll soon owe the hotel $46,000. Heads turn subtly as she slinks toward a table to meet…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 13, 2013
LENGTH: 1 minutes (327 words)
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Rich Man, Poor Man

For the Church, Francis was too revered not to claim, too radical not to neutralize. “
PUBLISHED: Jan. 14, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5136 words)

The Plot to Destroy America's Beer

The Plot to Destroy America's Beer By Devin Leonard October 25, 2012 8:04 PM EDT Brian Rinfret likes imported beer from Germany. He sometimes buys Spaten. He enjoys an occasional Bitburger. When he…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 25, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3927 words)

Defying Gravity - Monday, October 1, 2012

By Beth Reinhard, Major Garrett and Jim Tankersley | Thursday, September 27, 2012 | 4:09 p.m. Photo: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster The U.S. economy has been recovering, agonizingly slowly, for three years.…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3851 words)

The Woman Who Would Save Football

The door to Ann McKee's office is a shrine to the human brain: artistic, scientific, and comic. An iridescent Andy Warhol carrying a Campbell's Soup can keeps company with a newspaper photograph of…
AUTHOR:Jane Leavy
PUBLISHED: Aug. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8726 words)

The Strongest Man in the World

At six feet eight and four hundred and thirty pounds, Brian Shaw competes in events such as car lifts and the Manhood Stones.
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2012
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9726 words)

Girls Love Me

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. For public distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, contact ccasey@texasmonthly.com for reprint information and fees. Pretty…
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4806 words)

Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World

Craig Venter. In the menagerie of Craig Venter’s imagination, tiny bugs will save the world. They will be custom bugs, designer bugs — bugs that only Venter can create. He will mix them up in his…
PUBLISHED: May 30, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5978 words)

Desperate life at sea

SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand and PREY VENG, Cambodia — To hear Jord tell it, a deep-sea boatman’s life is one long knife fight. His nastiest scar starts above his eyes. It runs straight to…
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2638 words)
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