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France: a divided nation goes to the polls

One of the central paradoxes of life in France is that for all the French preen themselves as the most civilised nation on Earth, they are also quickly prone to collapse into self-lacerating fits of…
PUBLISHED: April 14, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3432 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)

Among the asexuals

"OK," writes Annette, in an introductory email: "I am 47 but look younger, probably because I take good care of myself and also do not have the stress of a husband and kids." At first glance it…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2371 words)
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