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How I Met My Dead Parents

In 1994, when I was 16 and he was 54, my father George was killed in a car accident in Ukraine. He'd begun working in Ukraine, where he was born, after Communism fell, something that he didn't think…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6753 words)

The Body in Room 348

The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had…
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8109 words)

The Miner’s Daughter

Rinehart believes the mining gospel that she preaches. She believes that she and her fellow-billionaires know best. Illustration by Gregory Manchess.
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2013
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9202 words)

The New New Girl: Mindy Kaling Promotes Herself Out of The Office and Into The Mindy Project

The set goes quiet. The take is about to begin. Mindy Kaling, as her character, Dr. Mindy Lahiri — excellent at being an OB/GYN, disastrous but still hopeful at love — stands at a…
AUTHOR:Jada Yuan
PUBLISHED: Sept. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3669 words)

The dark side of genius

MICHAEL SCHOLFIELD Last updated 13:48 27/08/2012 The first weeks of Janni's life, my wife, Susan, and I are taking lots of home video, imagining her watching these tapes alongside us and her friends…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3633 words)

Venus and Serena Against the World

There’s video that exists of Venus and Serena Williams playing tennis when they were kids — 8 and 7, respectively — in the late ’80s, on unshaded but otherwise decent-looking public courts in…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6387 words)
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Tracking The Biggest Star In The World

Image by OLIVIA HARRIS / Reuters Posted a few minutes ago David Johnson tells Jay-Z everything. He emails the superstar about his family, his career, and his ambitions. He sends messages about his…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2273 words)

The Long, Fake Life of J.S. Dirr: A Decade-Long Internet Cancer Hoax Unravels

On the evening of May 13, Mother's Day, a Canadian woman named Dana Dirr was hit head-on while driving to the Saskatchewan hospital where she worked as a trauma surgeon. She was 35 weeks pregnant,…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3484 words)

Girl from AP's Vietnam napalm photo finds peace with her role in history

Crying children, including nine-year-old Kim Phuc, center, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam. Photograph: Nick Ut/AP In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot!…
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1539 words)
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