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How a Single Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States

The burly American was escorted by Pakistani policemen into a crowded interrogation room. Amid a clatter of ringing mobile phones and cross talk among the cops speaking a mishmash of Urdu, Punjabi…
PUBLISHED: April 9, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6232 words)

Why Indian Women Leave the Workforce

On-Ramps and Up-Ramps India launch at Cisco How to keep women from leaving the workforce has been a much-debated subject around the world. By now everyone knows the script, women join work in good…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1070 words)

Afghan Women Face the Future

This is a personal story, and it’s hard to tell because nobody knows how it will end. I first went to Afghanistan in 2002, where I volunteered with two small nongovernmental organizations…
AUTHOR:Ann Jones
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1064 words)

John Lanchester rides the London Underground

Daniel Craig as James Bond in Skyfall: 'The whole sequence is a fascinating exercise in the limits and difficulties of depicting the underground on screen.' Photograph: Landmark Media The first…
PUBLISHED: March 2, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3724 words)

Step Inside the Real World of Compulsive Hoarders

One anonymous hoarder's living room Image: Shadwwulf, via Wikimedia Commons If you had opened the front door of Lee Shuer's apartment in the early 2000s, you would have encountered a narrow hallway…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 25, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2480 words)
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A Reader’s War

“Thanks to literature, to the consciousness it shapes, the desires and longings it inspires…civilization is now less cruel than when storytellers began to humanize life with their…
AUTHOR:Teju Cole
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2026 words)

Return of the oppressed

Today, the top one per cent of incomes in the United States accounts for one fifth of US earnings. The top one per cent of fortunes holds two-fifths of the total wealth. Just one rich family, the six…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4431 words)

The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much

Gérard de Villiers, the author of the best-selling S.A.S. espionage series. Last June, a pulp-fiction thriller was published in Paris under the title “Le Chemin de Damas.” Its lurid green-and-black…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4047 words)

A Sin City Savior's Quest To Cure The Common Hangover

In a luxury high-rise condo above the Las Vegas Strip, Dr. Jason Burke is inserting an IV catheter into the inner bend of Sancho Van Ryan's elbow. "Let me put this in your left arm so you can text if…
AUTHOR:Greg Beato
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6524 words)
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