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How A War Hero Became A Serial Bank Robber

Around 11:45 on the morning of Saturday, April 23, 2011, a young man wearing sunglasses and a blue hoodie walked into a U.S. Bank in Lyndhurst, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. His name was Nicholas…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 31, 2013
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8341 words)

When Does Plastic Surgery Become Racial Transformation?

Image by Abbie Trayler-Smith/Buzzfeed Leo Jiang won't tell me why he spent the pas
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3463 words)

The Short Flight Of El Pájaro, The Cuban Legend Who Played His Only Game In The Major Leagues 100 Years Ago Today

No one knows anymore what the A in Alfredo A. Cabrera's name stands for. We do know he most likely sailed from the Canary Islands to Cuba around 1900, as a teenager, and almost immediately…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4686 words)

Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself On Live Television?

Image by John Gara/Buzzfeed Friday, Sept. 28, 2012Denny's, 75th Avenue and Interstate 10, Phoenix, about 10:45 a.m.No one knows for sure how long Jodon Romero
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4974 words)

Deep Inside The Biggest Little Dildo Factory In America

The chaotic space of the main production floor looks like a meth cook's dream: a battery of industrial-sized vats standing as they swirl and pump 100,000 pounds of synthesized chemicals into the…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3667 words)

I Read Everything Janet Malcolm Ever Published

Author Janet Malcolm Photo by Kevin Sturman The most exciting-to-read works of journalism often betray little evidence of how tedious they were to report. Baroque murder trials come with thousands of…
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2834 words)

The Prophets of Oak Ridge

by Dan Zak Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. A…
AUTHOR:Dan Zak
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2013
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9422 words)

How I Met My Dead Parents

In 1994, when I was 16 and he was 54, my father George was killed in a car accident in Ukraine. He'd begun working in Ukraine, where he was born, after Communism fell, something that he didn't think…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6753 words)

David Lee Roth Will Not Go Quietly

There are many things to admire about David Lee Roth's home. There's the lushly landscaped property, three football fields' worth by his estimation, hidden behind a 9-foot ivy-covered wall on an…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: April 12, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6514 words)
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