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The Soul of Student Debt

Janet Lynn Parker is a middle-aged elementary school art teacher from Arkansas. She graduated in 1991 from Arkansas State University with a degree in art education and $25,000 in student loan debt.…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3713 words)

The Next Jeremy Lin?

Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, isn't much more than a sign and a river. To get here, you fly into Charlotte and drive three hours through the ruin of western North Carolina — past defunct factory…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5935 words)

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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4724 words)

The Mag: Floyd Mayweather is money

ESPN The Mag: Mayweather's Money Issue All Access This story appears in the May 14, 2012 Money Issue of ESPN The Magazine. Subscribe today!THE SCENE in the parking lot of the Mayweather Boxing Club…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4081 words)
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Come as You Are

There are days when, for no particular reason, I pull out my drop-crotch pants. They are made from an inky black wool crepe, and when laid out flat, have an elegant geometry—like the lower…
AUTHOR:Alex Jung
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5686 words)
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The Occupiers: A Liberal and a Radical Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

Last fall, Daniel Murphy and Ben Zucker devoted themselves to Occupy Wall Street for very different reasons. Today, they represent two forces that threaten to pull the group apart. …
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1583 words)

Deep Intellect

by Sy Montgomery Published in the November/December 2011 issue of Orion magazine Photograph: Brandon Cole ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4735 words)

Pvt. Danny Chen, 1992–2011

Private Chen’s bedroom on January 5.  (Photo: Ashley Gilbertson/VII Photo for New York Magazine) On the evening of October 3, 2011, Su Zhen Chen heard a knock at the door. In the…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (843 words)
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