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Paying for a special-needs child

The cost of son Finn's care has forced author Jeff Howe and his family to make some tough choices. (Money Magazine) Our kid is nothing like your kid. I don't mean that in an…
AUTHOR:Jeff Howe
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (791 words)

Jane Goodall Reveals Her Lifelong Fascination With…Plants?

From my window, as I write in my house in Bournemouth, England, I can see the trees I used to climb as a child. Up in the branches of one of them, a beech tree, I would read about Doctor Dolittle and…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 25, 2013
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6281 words)

How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy

Vickie, Alice, Lisa, Debbie, Barbara, Chris, Clair and Cootz boarded the Los Angeles-bound Sunset Limited in Schriever, La., and immediately took residence in the glass-sheathed Sightseer Lounge car.…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5006 words)

In the Footsteps of a Killer

Fifty rapes. Ten murders. Two identities. One man. From 1976 to 1986, one of the most violent serial criminals in American history terrorized communities throughout California. He was little known,…
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7635 words)

A Fascinating Life Story of a "Shut-in"

Without revealing his name, the author of a post titled “I’m a shut-in. This is my story” explains his background, childhood, struggles with authority and depression, and the…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (501 words)
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Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction

The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2013
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9048 words)

WIRED

Illustration: Ross Patton/Wired People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web. The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 1, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1431 words)

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

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

A vanished life

Shawnda Rush, 38, of Winchester, Va.                                                                                                                                   (Photographs by Joseph Victor…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 24, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3753 words)
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