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Stanford University School of Medicine

Alice Miller, PhD, lived as a man for most of her life. Her primary care physician agreed to help her become a woman, but first had to learn how. On a September morning about 10 years ago, Lyman…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3766 words)

Battleground America

Every American can be his own policeman; the country has nearly as many guns as it has people. Photograph by Christopher Griffith.
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1042 words)

The Mystery of Why Marine Noah Pippin Went AWOL

VERN AND DONELLE KERSEY aren’t the type of parents satisfied with hauling their kids to a national park and pitching a tent beneath the floodlights of someone’s motor home. Native…
LENGTH: 43 minutes (10766 words)

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

Don Johnson finds it hard to remember the exact cards. Who could? At the height of his 12-hour blitz of the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, last April, he was playing a hand of…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2248 words)

Billboard: 1986 Artist Of The Year, The Making of 'Whitney Houston'

Billboard: Artist Of The Year Billboard Inside Tracks, December 1986 Whitney Houston The Long Road To Overnight Stardom - By Bud Scoppa Once in a blue moon
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2613 words)

Dinner at Rupert's

Red wine in hand, Rupert Murdoch chatted with guests at his London townhouse on what would be one of the most important nights to the future of his company. Gathered for cocktails were…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2204 words)

Shark in the Kiddie Pool

Meet Nick Roses, called “the most hated 21-year-old” in Hollywood, who climbed to the top of a growing field—child talent management—while still a kid himself. But…
AUTHOR:Ned Zeman
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5041 words)

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

No one would accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described “sloppy dresser,” the 63-year-old Czech scientist has the contemplative air of someone habitually lost in…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2873 words)

The Last Grande Dame of Australian Art

DAZZLING in a sarong of a shade best classified as unspeakably orange, Mitty Lee Brown emerges regally from a nap through Sri Lanka's tropical torpor to receive an unexpected well-wisher.She's a…
AUTHOR:Eric Ellis
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4583 words)
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