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Some of My Best Friends Are Germs

I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on Marc
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1119 words)

Inside the Oscar Pistorius Murder Case: What Paths Took the Couple to That Final Night?

When Oscar Pistorius—the South African “Blade Runner,” who overcame a double amputation to compete in the Olympics last year—shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on…
AUTHOR:Mark Seal
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8083 words)

Do no harm: Who should bear the costs of retired NFL players’ medical bills?

After 24 knee operations, the National Football League’s former Man of the Year leans heavily on a crutch. When Reggie Williams pulls up his pants leg, what’s underneath looks like the…
PUBLISHED: May 9, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (547 words)

I am Royce White: Living and working with anxiety disorder

Stay connected with SB Nation Follow @sbnation I am Royce White. I am not 6’ 8. I can barely grow a beard, much less one of the epic varieties that White often sports. I’ve never been…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6026 words)

Who Would Kill a Monk Seal?

The Hawaiian monk seal has wiry whiskers and the deep, round eyes of an apologetic child. The animals will eat a variety of fish and shellfish, or turn over rocks for eel and octopus, then haul out…
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (698 words)

The Prophets of Oak Ridge

by Dan Zak Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. A…
AUTHOR:Dan Zak
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2013
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9422 words)

NBA player Jason Collins says he is gay | SI.com

"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay," says Jason Collins.Kwaku Alston/SI This story appears in the May 6, 2013, issue of Sports Illustrated. I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black.…
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3068 words)

Out in the Great Alone

I landed in Anchorage in the middle of the night. The next morning, I drove an hour north to Wolf Lake Airport, a private airfield near Wasilla. You know those old photo-backdrop screens that little…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4720 words)

Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer

I used to believe that a mammogram saved my life. I even wrote that in the pages of this magazine. It was 1996, and I had just turned 35 when my doctor sent me for an initial screening — a…
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (706 words)
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