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Ibogaine: Can it Cure Addiction Without the Hallucinogenic Trip?

Ron Price needs his milkshake. It's 10 o'clock on a Monday morning and the bald-headed, barrel-chested former bodybuilder is shuffling around the kitchen of a posh rehab clinic in Tijuana, wearing…
PUBLISHED: May 18, 765
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5229 words)

Pad Thai

Yet it’s not entirely fair to complain about the authenticity of Pad Thai. It’s the noodle that’s the most Thai, and at the same time, the least. Before the 1940s, Pad Thai…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1818 words)

Narrative of an empty space

A CLUTCH of five uninhabited islets and three rocks, cast adrift out in the currents of the Western Pacific, recently demonstrated their power to convulse East Asia. China, which (along with Taiwan)…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2643 words)

Patti Smith: Family Life, Recent Loss, and New Album 'Gone Again'

Patti Smith in New York City. Catherine McGann/Getty Images She looks thin, frail, vulnerable. The hood of her sweat jacket is pulled up over her long, grayin
PUBLISHED: July 11, 1996
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1412 words)

The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan

On the flat top of a steep hill in a distant corner of northern Japan lies the tomb of an itinerant shepherd who, two millennia ago, settled down there to grow garlic. He fell in love with a…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3735 words)

Shaping The Void

The new site strikes a careful balance between commerce and commemoration. Photograph by Robert Polidori.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 12, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1738 words)

Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits

The Ivory Wars: Heavily armed platoons of rangers at Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo wage war against elephant poachers. GARAMBA NATIONAL PARK,
PUBLISHED: Sept. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3464 words)

The New Economics of Photojournalism: The rise of Instagram - British Journal of Photography

Instagram, the brainchild of software engineers Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger, was launched in October 2010 to, almost, little notice. At the time, the iPhone app was competing against…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3294 words)
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Taking Beauty's Measure

Once upon a time, long, long ago, a man I worked for said to me, "You're beautiful." Then he quickly added, as if he regretted paying me such an expansive compliment, "in your category." Had I read…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 11, 2011
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3505 words)
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