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Beat By Dre: The Exclusive Inside Story of How Monster Lost the World

There's never been anything like Beats By Dre. The bulky rainbow headphones are a gaudy staple of malls, planes, clubs, and sidewalks everywhere: as mammoth, beloved, and expensive as their namesake.…
AUTHOR:Sam Biddle
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2818 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 (6534 words)

Libor Lies Revealed in Rigging of $300 Trillion Benchmark

Every morning, from his desk by the bathroom at the far end of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s trading floor overlooking London’s Liverpool Street station, Paul White punched a…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4378 words)

The future according to Google's Larry Page

FORTUNE -- When Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google this past fall, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood Hotel about 20 miles away.…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 3, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4031 words)

Last Call

November/ December 2012 Last Call Industry giants are threatening to swallow up America's carefully regulated alcohol industry, and remake America in the image of booze-soaked Britain. By Tim…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4919 words)

The Island Where People Forget to Die

Stamatis Moraitis tending his vineyard and olive grove on Ikaria. More Photos » In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis
PUBLISHED: Oct. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (762 words)

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May 12, 2008

I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

The author, who writes under a pseudonym, is a Japanese sushi chef. In 1982, at the invitation of a Japanese-North Korean trading company, he started working in a sushi restaurant in Pyongyang. In…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1693 words)
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