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Local letter carriers stick together through Postal Service upheaval

Monday, May 6, 2013 | 6:00 a.m. CDT COLUMBIA — Jeff Connell knows the name of nearly every resident in the 65203 ZIP code. He knows the worn wooden porch with the wide awning on Spring…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2629 words)

Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement's Adoption Obsession

Illustration: Brian Cronin IN 2005, SAM ALLISON, a Tennessee housepainter in his 30s, arrived at Daniel Hoover Children's Village, an orphanage outside Monrovia, Liberia. He'd come to adopt three…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1355 words)
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Generation Ask

Rhiana MaidenbergThe goal: $40,000 for Sunnyside ElementaryThe get: $39,789* The site: GoFundMe *All figures as of print time
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1127 words)

Who Can Save the ‘Today’ Show?

Matt Lauer and Ann Curry on Curry’s last day as co-host of the ‘‘Today’’ show. One Wednesday last month, Ann Curry, camouflaged in a hat and trench coat, tru
PUBLISHED: April 18, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (768 words)

Employee Discounts: A Post College Job at Barnes and Noble

For one young woman, a post-college job as holiday help at Barnes & Noble means selling loyalty, slinging deals, getting screwed, and getting even. By Kjerstin Johnson, from The Bear Deluxe…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (635 words)

The Loading Dock Manifesto

This is my life: I work the graveyard shift for a beverage distributor outside Cleveland, Ohio. Thirty hours a week I'm making the world safe for carbonated refreshment. Or at least three counties…
AUTHOR:John Hyduk
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1649 words)

Let Me Introduce Myself: Farewell to Mobutu Sese Seko

1. I Doxxed Myself (Because I Am Just A Cloud) My name is Jeb Lund, I am a 35-year-old married WASP, and it was never my plan to become a deceased African dictator. I am childless, Godless and, when…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5375 words)

San Francisco Giant

 Protests against his proposal to ban most public nudity.“I was always the tallest kid in my class,” Scott Wiener recalls. Eventually topping out at 6 feet, 7 inches, the future…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1046 words)

A Loaded Gun

Amy Bishop alongside her parents, Judy and Sam, in 1987. Judy calls Amy a “brilliant girl” who “just snapped.”
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (957 words)
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