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Gary Silversmith sailed the Sequoia back to Washington. Now, he’s in deep water.

PUBLISHED: May 9, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4028 words)
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A mother’s story: The moon to his sun

(Editor’s note: Longtime Washington Post reporter and columnist Marjorie Williams was raised to disdain Mother’s Day as a conspiracy by florists and greeting-card manufacturers, her…
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (651 words)

A mother’s story: The moon to his sun

(Editor’s note: Longtime Washington Post reporter and columnist Marjorie Williams was raised to disdain Mother’s Day as a conspiracy by florists and greeting-card manufacturers, her…
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (651 words)
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The Prophets of Oak Ridge

by Dan Zak Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. A…
AUTHOR:Dan Zak
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2013
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9422 words)

Richard Nixon’s Long Journey Ends: Men of Steel Are Melting With Age

YORBA LINDA, CALIF., APRIL 27 -- When last the nation saw them all together, they were men of steel and bristling crew cuts, titans of their time -- which was a time of pragmatism and ice water in…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (555 words)

In Florida, a food-stamp recruiter deals with wrenching choices

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A good recruiter needs to be liked, so Dillie Nerios filled gift bags with dog toys for the dog people and cat food for the cat people. She packed crates of cookies,…
AUTHOR:Eli Saslow
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (511 words)

A Father Transformed by Anguish: Scars Define the Man Who Burned Himself After Son’s Death in Iraq

BOSTON -- Another day of trying to recover. Once again, Carlos Arredondo, whose reaction to the death of his son became one of the iconic images of the Iraq war, is reading the last e-mail he…
PUBLISHED: April 16, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (597 words)
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A mysterious Iranian-run factory in Germany

DINSLAKEN, Germany — For years, mystery surrounded an Iranian-controlled factory tucked away in this town of 70,000 in Germany’s industrial west. The plant manufactured high-pressure…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2013
LENGTH: 1 minutes (495 words)

Flea market Renoir was first offered to different auction house with different story, employee says

Months before she dubbed herself “Renoir Girl” and made news as a woman who had found an Impressionist gem at a flea market, Martha Fuqua took the painting to a Falls Church auction…
PUBLISHED: April 14, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (517 words)
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