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The Silver Kings

The fish would be airborne for only a few seconds, but to the hypnotized eyes of a human observer time slowed down, and the sight lingered for so long it could almost be studied like a painting,…
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5017 words)

National Magazine Awards 2013 Finalists Announced

Design Legends Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard to Be Honored at Annual DinnerNEW YORK, NY (April 1, 2013)--The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today announced the finalists for the 2013…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1228 words)

Crash Test

During his first run for the White House, George W. Bush called it the Texas Miracle. High-stakes testing in the public schools, along with other measures meant to hold teachers and principals…
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2013
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6431 words)

Crash Test

During his first run for the White House, George W. Bush called it the Texas Miracle. High-stakes testing in the public schools, along with other measures meant to hold teachers and principals…
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2013
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6431 words)

Where Is My Home?

My grandmother made two kinds of kolaches. They were equally threatening. One had a prune-and-apricot filling, the fruit stewed together into a dark spackle that rested inside a shallow depression on…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2012
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7021 words)

Darkness on the Plains

I first met Stanley Marshmore than thirty years ago, when I was a young newspaper reporter on assignment in Amarillo. He was in his early forties then and one of the most celebrated men in…
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5000 words)

“Oh, My God! It’s Our Children!”

It is considered the worst school disaster in U.S. history. On Thursday, March 18, 1937, at 3:17 in the afternoon, some seven hundred students and forty teachers were inside the high school in New…
AUTHOR:Katy Vine
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2007
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8637 words)

The Mistress and the Narcotraficante

This story is adapted from Ricardo C. Ainslie's The Fight to Save Juarez (UT Press).Elena first met Hernán at a bar. She was in her early twenties, hanging out in a Juárez club frequented…
PUBLISHED: April 3, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3447 words)

Why Russia Accused a Texan Adoptive Mother of Murder

Type “Texas” into Yandex, Russia’s largest search-engine, and you are in for a shock. In clip after clip from the evening news broadcast by the state-owned TV channel, grim-faced…
PUBLISHED: March 3, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2053 words)
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