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Longreads: Future Foods, Car Index, Mexico's Middle Class, Gen U and Africa's Era of Unemployment

Find a good longread on development? Tweet it to @worldbank with the hashtag #longreads. Amid Olympics chatter, concern continues to grow over extreme weather and rising food prices, with…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (361 words)

How I Ended My Lifelong Love Affair With Guns

As a child, the author fired rounds with his father and believed owning weapons made people safer. Here's what changed his mind. Kratka Photography/Shutterstock I grew up with guns around the house.…
PUBLISHED: July 25, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1768 words)

The Measured Man

Like many people who are careful about their weight, Larry Smarr once spent two weeks measuring everything he put in his mouth. He charted each serving of food in grams or teaspoons, and…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1850 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)

Top 10 Longreads of 2011

6. What Really Happened Aboard Air France Flight 447Jeff Wise | Popular Mechanics | Dec. 6, 2011 | 17 minutes (4,253 words) A fatal human error, repeated over and over again, as the reader observes…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (371 words)

Person of the Year 2011

Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air by the few for the masses, protesters were prime makers of…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 14, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (900 words)

The Rise of "Truth"

George W. Bush gets word of the 9/11 attacks while reading a book to s
PUBLISHED: June 7, 2011
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2310 words)

The Hot-Money Cowboys of Baghdad

Namir al-Akabi, the C.E.O. of Almco, packs a pistol and a cellphone.
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2011
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5405 words)

knock-on-wood

Dimanche 25 Juin 2006, on pouvait visiter gratuitement ce Muse des " Arts Premiers " ,mais il pleuvait sur Paris.... http://mirepeisset.roby.over-blog.com/article-25417030.html …
LENGTH: 3 minutes (777 words)
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