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The Rise of the Tick

A black-legged tick, which carries Lyme and other diseases. Photo: David Scharf/Getty
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5593 words)

Unearthing the Complete and Total Disaster That Was 'The Chevy Chase Show'

Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain. Other times, the powers that be get…
SOURCE:Splitsider
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2387 words)

After Sandy, a great and complex city reveals traumas new and old

ON THE EVENING OF SEPT. 3, 2008, I SAT IN THE EXCEL ENERGY CENTER in St. Paul, Minn. and listened as former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani mocked the Democrats' presidential nominee Barack…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5236 words)

This Land Is My Land

Just before 10 a.m. on September 7, 2009, residents of Mill Creek heard gunshots. Some heard one shot; others as many as three. At the time it did not seem important. The sound was not uncommon along…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1951 words)

The bloody patent battle over a healing machine

By Ken Otterbourg, contributor A negative-pressure wound-therapy device made by Kinetic Concepts Inc. FORTUNE -- A patent royalty is a beautiful thing. It is so much sweeter than found money because…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3947 words)
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Florida farm workers tell how drugs, debt bind them in modern slavery

HASTINGS — LeRoy Smith thought he had hit rock bottom when he found himself trolling Atlanta's gay district, looking to exchange sex acts for a hot hit off a crack pipe. Then he wound up on a…
PUBLISHED: May 12, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2402 words)
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