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Paul McCartney's New Album, New Life and How the Beatles Almost Reunited | Music News

Paul McCartney on the cover of Rolling Stone. Nadav Kander
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2012
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Is This the End of Rico?

Ever since the early thirties, when Charles (Lucky) Luciano tamed the more anarchic impulses of the Mob, it has been an article of local faith that the greater metropolitan area is controlled by the…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2001
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5424 words)
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Internet anonymity is the height of chic

'The chicest thing," said fashion designer Phoebe Philo recently, "is when you don't exist on Google. God, I would love to be that person!"Philo, creative director of Céline, is not that person. As…
PUBLISHED: June 12, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2391 words)
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MLB Steroid Scandal: How Porter Fischer Exposed the Coral Gables Clinic

The first thing Porter Fischer spotted was the trunk of his silver Corolla. It was wide open. Then he noted a bashed-in passenger window and shattered glass littering the parking lot outside the Boca…
PUBLISHED: June 17, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4725 words)
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Investigating the Root Causes of Illness

Effective care for most illnesses requires understanding the social conditions of one’s patients, writes Paul Farmer in The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to its Source, a…
PUBLISHED: June 18, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1956 words)
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The Week’s Best Longreads for June 15, 2013

The Lonely Quiet After Newtown Eli Saslow, The Washington Post Six months later, the Newtown massacre fades into the past, and the parents left behind try to make the country remember.
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2013
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Computing: The quantum company

D-Wave is pioneering a novel way of making quantum computers — but it is also courting controversy. The D-Wave quantum computer processor is 3,600 times faster than classical computers at some tasks.…
PUBLISHED: June 19, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2945 words)
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Obama’s Former Spiritual Advisor Joshua DuBois on The Fight for Black Men

0Opinions0Comment0ShareNext StoryThere is an easy way to meet Joe Jones, and a hard way. Let’s start with the easy way. If you and I were at a cocktail party, I’d introduce you to a…
PUBLISHED: June 19, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6818 words)
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FEATURE: Kanye West’s Time Has Come

Now that it’s time to come out as a solo artist, Kanye West is fixed on getting at as many people as possible. And although his early fans may be enthralled with his alignment with rap…
PUBLISHED: June 8, 2011
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Milan's Secret Side: The Quiet Italian

Rome has the river, the ruins, and the religion; Florence has a Renaissance masterpiece every five paces; Milan has . . . the economy. But there's a lot more to Italy's fashion capital than capital,…
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