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How Scientists Stalked a Lethal Superbug—With the Killer’s Own DNA

Klebsiella pneumoniaePhoto: Dan Forbes A lethal bacterium was running rampant at an NIH hospital. Antibiotics were useless. Then two scientists began a frantic race to track down the…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 17, 2013
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5314 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)

Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about. The…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3598 words)

Homies: What Happened to Everyone I Went to Middle School With?

‘It’s your fault,’ Tim says. ‘Ha! … What?’ I say. ‘The weed. You made me smoke weed, that’s how it all started.’ I’m smiling too…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3324 words)

Rooked

It happened this spring, in the 2012 Virginia Scholastic and Collegiate Chess Tournament. Both Quentin Moore and his opponent, a rising star on the D.C.-area chess scene named Clark Smiley, came into…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4316 words)

The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever

By by Michael J. MooneyD Magazine JUL 2012 When Bill Fong approaches the lane, 15-pound bowling ball in hand, he tries not to breathe. He tries not to think about not breathing. He wants his body to…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4501 words)

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The Fall of the Creative Class

© Will Dinski This arti­cle appears in the first issue of Thirty Two, the Twin Cities’ new mag­a­zine. Find us at your favorite local shop or buy it here.  Essay by…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3846 words)

An Oral History of the 1992 US Olympic Basketball Dream Team on the 20th Anniversary: Profiles: GQ

It was always a silly rule. According to international basketball guidelines in place for decades, professionals from leagues all over the world could compete for their countries at the…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4838 words)
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