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In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad

The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. When workers in the cafeteria ran…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 25, 2012
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5251 words)
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The Caging of America

Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss.
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5481 words)

Transformation And Transcendence: The Power Of Female Friendship

In 1997 I arrived in Geneva to work for a year at the headquarters of a relief organization. Feeling overwhelmed by my job and lonely in a city of overworked expats passing through for two to three…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2583 words)

How Now, Mr Chow? The Sweet ’n Sour Saga Behind the City’s Epic Food Fight

Skewered for false advertising, Team Philippe woks on most counts. On a recent evening at Mr Chow, the venerable Chinese restaurant on East 57th Street that has catered to free-spending New Yorkers…
AUTHOR:Aaron Gell
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3917 words)
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