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Lessons of Grief

The day that it happened, the United States Postal Service unveiled The Simpson’s collectors’ set—a five-stamp commemorative booklet featuring Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and…
SOURCE:Vela Mag
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3351 words)

The Mind of a Con Man

Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. One summer night in 2011, a
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6609 words)

The divorce from hell, the battle for alimony and emptied pockets

CLEARWATER -- Terry Power's face tightened as he listened to his wife's attorney tick off their assets on the final day of his divorce trial. He sat in a leather chair at a glass-covered table inside…
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2013
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5970 words)

Beat By Dre: The Exclusive Inside Story of How Monster Lost the World

There's never been anything like Beats By Dre. The bulky rainbow headphones are a gaudy staple of malls, planes, clubs, and sidewalks everywhere: as mammoth, beloved, and expensive as their namesake.…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2849 words)

Silencing the Subway

Inside a high-tech effort to minimize the maddening racket in the New York underground. If  you’ve ever stood in the deafening racket of the Spring Street subway station in Manhattan and…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3172 words)

A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports' Biggest Names

Open the neat spreadsheet and scroll past the listing of local developers, prominent attorneys, and personal trainers. You'll find a lengthy list of nicknames: Mostro, Al Capone, El Cacique, Samurai,…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5526 words)

Are Babies Born Good?

Arber Tasimi is a 23-year-old researcher at Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center, where he studies the moral inclinations of babies—how the littlest children understand right and…
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9645 words)
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Biological mother makes mission of contesting adoption after 31 years

Joy Hunley crossed her arms and stood still. She watched her attorney walk up to the clerk in the courthouse in Clearwater to ask for the adoption records a judge finally had said she could see. She…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 4, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3325 words)
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3 Fla. siblings get 35 years for Ga. bank robbery

VALDOSTA, Ga. -- Three Florida siblings involved in a cross-country crime spree were sentenced by a federal judge Monday to more than 35 years in jail.Senior Judge Hugh Lawson sentenced Ryan…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (660 words)
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