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1. The Shooter Phil Bronstein | Center for Investigative Reporting, Esquire | February 11, 2013 | 61 minutes (15,479 words) The man who killed Osama bin Laden leaves the Navy and returns home to an…

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9. The Semplica-Girl Diaries George Saunders | The New Yorker | October 8, 2012 | 35 minutes (8,979 words) A father uses his lottery winnings for an extravagant birthday party for his teenage…
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longreads: “State of the Species.” — Charles C....

Saturday, October 27, 2012 longreads: “State of the Species.” — Charles C. Mann, Orion Magazine More by Orion Hey that’s us! Thanks, Longreads!
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State of the Species

By Charles C. Mann THE PROBLEM WITH environmentalists, Lynn Margulis used to say, is that they think conservation has something to do with biological reality. A researcher who specialized in cells…
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8130 words)

State of the Species

By Charles C. Mann THE PROBLEM WITH environmentalists, Lynn Margulis used to say, is that they think conservation has something to do with biological reality. A researcher who specialized in cells…
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8130 words)

After the Fall

LAST SUMMER, when cracks began to appear in the road to the small Mexican farming town of Santiago Mitlatongo, no one really noticed. Hardly anyone paid attention to the little sinkholes that began…
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Top 5 Longreads of the Week

[Not single-page] Mail-order brides on a journey across the ocean:"On the boat we were mostly virgins. We had long black hair and flat wide feet and we were not very tall. Some of us had eaten…
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