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Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite

Photograph by Bryce DuffyNetflix CEO Reed Hastings
PUBLISHED: May 9, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3848 words)

Top 5 Longreads of the Week

4. The Ghost Writes Back Amy Boesky | Kenyon Review | February 25, 2013 | 20 minutes (5,173 words) The writer reflects on her old part-time job—ghostwriting the Sweet Valley High book…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (309 words)

When the Spec Script was king

Once derided as “schmucks with Underwoods,” screenwriters saw their stock soar to seven-figure heights with the advent of the frenzied “spec”-script market. That bubble burst in 2008, but will the…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4733 words)
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The Disaster Response Industry's Salesmen of the Apocalypse

(Corrects price for a case of FloodSax.) Thomas Prior for Bloomberg BusinessweekAn exhibitor tries out a hazmat suit in a decontamination shower at January’s International Disaster Conference…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 15, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2932 words)

OTL: Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Analytics issue. SUBSCRIBE TODAY » CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Five weeks before his 50th birthday, Michael Jordan sits behind his desk, overlooking a parking…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7823 words)

Anatomy of a heroin ring

At first it seemed like just another senseless shooting in an already violent summer. A little after 4 AM on Monday, August 18, 2008, two men were fired on as they sat in a Mercedes outside the Rock…
AUTHOR:Mick Dumke
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6814 words)

What's the best sentence you read this week?

By popular demand, let's do this again. (See last week's here: http://branch.com/b/what-s-the-best-sentence-you-read-this-week) Thanks for your feedback! Team Branch – Team Branch Josh, Cemre, and…
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Fragmentation leaves Android phones vulnerable to hackers

In late October, researchers at North Carolina State University alerted Google to a security flaw that could let scam artists send phony text messages to Android phones — a practice called…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 6, 2013
LENGTH: 1 minutes (490 words)

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

The Siberian taiga in the Abakan district. Six members of the Lykov family lived in this remote wilderness for more than 40 years—utterly isolated and more than 150 miles from the nearest…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6965 words)
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