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Balloon Boy 2012: Three Years After the Hoax, Falcon Heene Fronts a Metal Band

Inside a single-story house on a quiet street an hour north of Tampa, 9-year-old Falcon Heene plugs in his bass guitar and fires up his amp. The scrawny, barefoot kid, four and a half feet tall,…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 11, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4160 words)

The Forgotten Millions

Let’s get one thing straight: America is not facing a fiscal crisis. It is, however, still very much experiencing a job crisis. It’s easy to get confused about the fiscal thing, since everyone’s…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (799 words)

Rob Ford as metaphor: The real culture of entitlement

What to make, just past its second anniversary, of the circus act that is Rob Ford's administration in Toronto? A perpetual sideshow and distraction where the primary attraction, the mayor himself,…
SOURCE:rabble.ca
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1609 words)

Why Is the US Still Hung Up on the Abortion Debate? A Bioethics Perspective

Unlike most countries in the developed world, the United States is still deeply mired in the abortion debate — a hotly contested issue that divides the nation and still holds the potential to…
SOURCE:io9.com
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2005 words)

How Do You Raise a Prodigy?

Drew Petersen didn’t speak until he was 3½, but his mother, Sue, never believed he was slow. When he was 18 months old, in 1994, she was reading to him and skipped a word, whereupon Drew reached over…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (767 words)

The Voter-Fraud Myth

Teresa Sharp is fifty-three years old and has lived in a modest single-family house on Millsdale Street, in a suburb of Cincinnati, for nearly thirty-three years. A lifelong Democrat, she has voted…
AUTHOR:Jane Mayer
PUBLISHED: Oct. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (975 words)
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Ocean fertilization: ‘Rogue climate hacker’ Russ George raises storm of controversy

VANCOUVER – Russ George doesn’t think small.He got the Vatican to buy into a venture to reduce its carbon footprint by growing a forest in Hungary.He sailed off to the Galapagos Islands…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1576 words)
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Just who are the narcissists in the room?

Alec Baldwin made headlines last year for getting kicked off an American Airlines flight. The 30 Rock star allegedly yelled and swore at flight attendants before slamming the door to the bathroom,…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1761 words)

What an Academic Who Wrote Her Dissertation on Trolls Thinks of Violentacrez

A critical look at trolling subculture and how we talk about it bayakpo/funnyjunk.com Last week, Adrian Chen at Gawker published a long profile of infamous Reddit moderator Violentacrez, described as…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2545 words)
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