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China's barbaric one-child policy
Jin Yani, who was forced to abort her baby nine months into her pregnancy. Photograph: Sinopix/Rex Features In China, procreation and childbirth are, like every facet of human life, deeply political.…
AUTHOR:Ma Jian
SOURCE:www.guardian.co.uk
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2821 words)
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Kaesong: crucible for inter-Korean frustration
South Korea is offering $270m (£174m) of support to companies locked out of the jointly run industrial zone at Kaesong, inside North Korea. But will it be enough to offset the tarnished image of…
AUTHOR:Lucy Williamson
SOURCE:www.bbc.co.uk
PUBLISHED: May 5, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1141 words)
A killer in the family
(CNN) -- "Missy, you need to change your last name," the shackled man in the orange prison jumpsuit said into the receiver, staring blankly at his 15-year-old daughter's tear-stained face. "That's…
AUTHOR:Sarah LeTrent, CNN
SOURCE:CNN
PUBLISHED: March 31, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1806 words)
The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble
In November 2011, Paul Frampton, a theoretical particle physicist, met Denise Milani, a Czech bikini model, on the online dating site Mate1.com. She was gorgeous — dark-haired and dark-eyed,…
AUTHOR:Maxine Swann
SOURCE:www.nytimes.com
PUBLISHED: March 8, 2013
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5767 words)
Up All Night
Some people can’t go to sleep until late; others can’t sleep in. Both suffer “social jet lag.” Illustration by Nishant Choksi. Nathan
AUTHOR:Elizabeth Kolbert
SOURCE:www.newyorker.com
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3247 words)
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The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm
Marcin Jakubowski sits cross-legged on the dirt floor of a round hut in Missouri farm country, carefully making an open-faced mayo and cheddar sandwich. Inside the hut there’s a bed, a small…
AUTHOR:Ashlee Vance
SOURCE:www.businessweek.com
PUBLISHED: Nov. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2493 words)
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Is College a Lousy Investment?
Why are we spending so much money on college? And why are we so unhappy about it? We all seem to agree that a college education is wonderful, and yet strangely we worry when we see families investing…
AUTHOR:Megan McArdle
SOURCE:www.thedailybeast.com
PUBLISHED: Sept. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2710 words)
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Philosophy v science: which can answer the big questions of life?
Julian Baggini No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science. When physics is compared with the…
SOURCE:m.guardian.co.uk
PUBLISHED: Sept. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2785 words)
Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live
When critics attempt to account for the genesis of Gabriel García Márquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude (a sort of Genesis text in its own right), there are two easy…
SOURCE:thenewinquiry.com
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4889 words)
