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Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 1 of 5)

Freaks And Geeks didn’t even make it all the way through its first and only season before getting cancelled, but in the 12 years since it limped off NBC’s primetime lineup, it’s…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3602 words)

Science-Based Medicine

Apr 09 2012 About a year ago, I addressed what might seem to the average reader to be a very simple question: Why haven’t we cured cancer yet? As I pointed out at the time, it’s a…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4297 words)

The Age Of Insight

Eric Kandel is a titan of modern neuroscience. He won the Nobel Prize in 2000 not simply for discovering a new set of scientific facts (although he has discovered plenty of those), but for…
PUBLISHED: April 7, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3337 words)
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5296 words)

The Disconnect

As reliably as autumn brings Orion to the night sky, spring each year sends a curious constellation to the multiplex: a minor cluster of romantic comedies and the couples who traipse through them,…
PUBLISHED: April 16, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1008 words)
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The Camorra Never Sleeps

For years before they caught him, the Italian police had no idea that Paolo Di Lauro was one of Naples’s most powerful crime bosses, running a drug and counterfeit-goods empire—and…
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2012
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9258 words)

Living Like a Billionaire, If Only for a Day

I HAVE a major problem: I just glanced at my $45,000 Chopard watch, and it’s telling me that my Rolls-Royce may not make it to the airport in time for my private jet flight.Yes, I know my…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1546 words)
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When Do We Draw the Line on NFL Violence?

Yeah, I heard the audio of former New Orleans defensive coordinator Gregg Williams urging his players to injure various 49ers before their January playoff game. It's pretty compelling — not…
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1552 words)

What’s Eating the NYPD?

The officers pictured here were photographed at random in public places in the city. None of them were interviewed by New York Magazine or have any connection to the officers quoted in this…
PUBLISHED: April 8, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (940 words)
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