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On a hot Austin night last summer, 60 natives convened for a social rite involving stick-on mustaches, paella, and a healthy flow of spirits. Young lesbians formed the core of the crowd. The two…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5743 words)

The Brain on Trial

On the steamy first day of August 1966, Charles Whitman took an elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. The 25-year-old climbed the stairs to the observation…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1152 words)

Is buying sex a better way to help Cambodian women than buying a T-shirt?

A brothel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia"Is this a good job?"That had to rank as one of dumbest questions in the history of modern journalism. I'd put it to a young woman who'd just served me a drink at
PUBLISHED: May 19, 2011
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2100 words)
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