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The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home

After losing her Florida home to foreclosure in 2009, Sheila Ramos has made a home for her family on a patch of rural land on Hawaii's Big Island. (Paul Kiel/ProPublica) Note: This story is not…
AUTHOR:Paul Kiel
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1018 words)

Beyond Illinois: Romneybot Cannot Compute What It Takes

It's taken an awfully long time, but the Romneybot 2.0 finally is almost capable of simulating actual human speech and, therefore, sounding very nearly like an actual presidential candidate. But, as…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1461 words)

The Enigma of Bhutan

Dilli Ram Dhimal, 73, sits cross-legged on his bed in a bamboo shack in Goldhap, a camp that once housed some 5,000 Bhutanese refugees in southeastern Nepal. In a month he will arrive in America, a…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2739 words)

The High Lands: Exploring Drug Tourism Across Southeast Asia

Whether they're seeking pleasure or meaning, more and more vacationers are experimenting with dangerous drugs from foreign cultures. Mountain ridge outside Doi Phu Kha National Park. On a hot,…
AUTHOR:Eve Turow
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1516 words)

The Frog of War

British archaeology's greatest hoax

In a few weeks, a group of British researchers will enter the labyrinthine store of London's Natural History Museum and remove several dark-coloured pieces of primate skull and jawbone from a small…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2590 words)

The Way It Was

In 1959, when I was a precocious smarty-pants still in grade school, I wrote a fake letter to Doris Blake, the New York Daily News advice columnist. I pretended to be a teenage girl "in trouble." I…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1887 words)

Hungary's 'Viktator' faces tide of protest at home and abroad

Surrounded by half-drunk flasks of tea and bundled up in three pairs of trousers apiece, the hunger strikers entered their 26th night of protest outside the Hungarian state broadcaster on Wednesday…
AUTHOR:Helen Pidd
PUBLISHED: Jan. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1960 words)

A new crisis in the Sahel

Tuareg frustration with Algeria's government has created palpable tension in the country [EPA] London, UK - There is a new crisis in the Sahel: On December 20, Algerian army forces crossed into…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2610 words)
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