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The Food-Truck Business Stinks

Stefan Nafziger seemed oddly downbeat for a guy watching a dozen or so hungry people line up to buy his falafels. Three years ago, when it seemed as if food trucks might take over Manhattan, he…
PUBLISHED: May 7, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1289 words)

The Night New York Avoided a Riot

Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis a little after 6 p.m., Central Standard Time, on April 4, 1968. As the news spread around the country, angry and grieving inner-city residents…
AUTHOR:Clay Risen
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2131 words)

We Found Our Son in the Subway

The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station.Danny called me that day, frantic.…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1162 words)

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (762 words)

Gabe Newell on Valve's past, gaming's present and Steam's future

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell's back-to-back lectures given Wednesday to University of Texas students of the LBJ School of Public Affairs focused on a subject that was as important to the company when…
SOURCE:Polygon
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2134 words)

Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie

On the set of "The Canyons" in Los Angeles last summer: Amanda Brooks, Lindsay Lohan and Paul Schrader. Lindsay Lohan moves through the Chateau Marmont as if she owns the place, but in a…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 10, 2013
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7657 words)

Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?

Conor McBride, who was convicted of shooting his girlfriend of three years when they were both 19. At 2:15 in the afternoon on March 28, 2010, Conor McBride, a tall, sandy-haired 19-year-old wearing…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 4, 2013
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7068 words)

HTMList.com, A Web Development Blog by Synapse Studios

Someone has devised a relatively simple way of defrauding Amazon.com and they require very little hard information to pull it off. While this story is still developing, I’m writing this…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2866 words)

THE LONELY VOICE #19: On the Beauty of Not Writing… A Reluctant Homage to Juan Rulfo

I would like to be even more silent. The need to write thankfully only comes once in a while, and when it does I do my best to keep it short. The upshot of many books on writing seems to be: Write,…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2089 words)
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