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America's New Mandarins

A friend writes, in re yesterday's post on employers requiring a BA for menial jobs: Random thought inspired by the NYT article re: requiring BAs for everything and your post, especially the…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 21, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2215 words)
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How Virtual Fences Will Transform Rural America

A relatively straightforward technological innovation -- GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices -- could profoundly…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8130 words)
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The Shooter

The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden used this gear during the May 2011 raid. The man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden sat in a wicker chair in my backyard, wondering how he was going to feed…
LENGTH: 59 minutes (14972 words)

The Operator

Mehmet Oz says that he yearns for the days “when our ancestors lived in small villages and there was always a healer in that village.” Photograph by Ethan Levitas.
PUBLISHED: Feb. 4, 2013
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8954 words)

Rough Cut

SURAT, India — The Gujarat Mail is just another red-eye train. Twelve powder-blue passenger cars crisscrossing, like so many hundreds of others, India's northwestern breadbasket through the…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3432 words)

The song of Song

AT 10.40pm on March 20th 1913 a young man who represented one possible future for China stood on the platform at Shanghai railway station, waiting with friends to board a train to Beijing. Song…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2579 words)

Meet The Entrepreneur Behind The Apocalypse's Must-Have Accessory

Somewhere in Arizona, a man I have known for less than 24 hours is teaching me how to kill a human being with a shovel. Or, should I say, a special customized shovel whose left edge is an axe blade.…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5711 words)

The Unequal State of America: Redistributing Up

Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts,…

Breakneck Coastal Development Put Thousands In Sandy's Path

By John Rudolf, Ben Hallman, Chris Kirkham, Saki Knafo and Matt Sledge On the night that Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, Vinny Baccale was in his Staten Island living room, plotting a last-minute…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 39 minutes (9855 words)
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