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How Not to Die

Dr. Angelo Volandes is making a film that he believes will change the way you die. The studio is his living room in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston; the control panel is his laptop; the…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2284 words)

How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for 'Star Wars'

One weekend last October, Robert Iger, chief executive officer of Walt Disney (DIS), sat through all six Star Wars films. He’d seen them before, of course. This time, he took notes. Disney was in…
PUBLISHED: March 7, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3449 words)

Suds for Drugs

(Photo: Victor Prado/New York Magazine. Typography by Kevin Dresser.) The call that came in from a local Safeway one day in March 2011 was unlike any the Organized Retail Crime Unit of the Prince…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 6, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (799 words)

The Beatles of Comedy

In 1968, a group of young English comedians made a TV special called How to Irritate People. Pitched for the U.S. market, the show was meant to get Americans excited about a new wave of British…
AUTHOR:David Free
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4213 words)

Why I'm Voting to Re-Elect President Obama

Photograph by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The president voting early last week in Chicago Because I am going to be in Florida on Election Day, I am voting this morning here in the Commonwealth…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1770 words)

First Serial: Marvel Comics, The Untold Story

In the early 1970s, a decade after its initial bursts of hip cachet and mass popularity, Marvel Comics was, like the rest of the industry, a victim of flat sales. Artist Jack Kirby, the co-creator of…
AUTHOR:Sean Howe
PUBLISHED: Oct. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9528 words)

The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz

Why a member of the Polish underground sent himself into the infamous prison camp David de Sola "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." - Julius Caesar;…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3358 words)

The Woman in 606 by Christopher Frizzelle - Seattle Features

Six months ago, my boyfriend and I were watching a movie in our apartment when he looked up and said, "Something's wrong." A moment later, he was pressed up against the front door, listening and…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6518 words)

Marathon Man

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about Kip Litton, a Michigan dentist who has been accused of repeatedly cheating in marathons and other distance-running events. In July, 2010, Kyle Strode, a…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (517 words)
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