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Meet the Con Man Who Pulled Off a Federal Sting That Cost Google $500 Million

For three months, the operation plodded along. Whitaker and the agents worked 10-hour days and blew through their budgets. Reich wasn’t satisfied. There are, and have long been, strong First…
AUTHOR:rossP
PUBLISHED: May 14, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1335 words)

The Mind of a Con Man

Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. One summer night in 2011, a
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (771 words)
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Relatives of Marathon bombing suspects worried that older brother was corrupting ‘sweet’ younger sibling

This story was written by Jenna Russell, Jenn Abelson, Patricia Wen, Michael Rezendes, and David Filipov of the Globe Staff. The two young brothers from Cambridge seemed to be on promising paths, one…
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3368 words)

Weird Twitter: The Oral History

Here are some attempts to describe "Weird Twitter," gathered from around the internet: 1. "[An] intentionally wrong style of idiotic comedy"2. "A loose group of Twitter users who w
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2013
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7871 words)

A King With No Country

The last king of Rwanda lives in low-income housing, at a dead end between US Route 66 and State Route 655 in Oakton. He is 76 years old now, his tottering seven-foot-two-inch frame stooped by age…
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1226 words)

Buzz Bissinger: Addicted to Gucci

Buzz Bissinger is a sick man with an addiction for Gucci products. He owns a $5,000 pair of pants and a $22,000 coat. He reveals his confession in this GQ piece. I have an addiction. It…
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (604 words)

Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky

As Singapore Airlines flight 322 descended through the early-morning haze toward Heathrow, Bradley L. Garrett, Ph.D.—just Brad to his research subjects—looked out over the gray sprawl…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6469 words)

How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy

Vickie, Alice, Lisa, Debbie, Barbara, Chris, Clair and Cootz boarded the Los Angeles-bound Sunset Limited in Schriever, La., and immediately took residence in the glass-sheathed Sightseer Lounge car.…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5006 words)

We Aren’t the World

IN THE SUMMER of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machiguenga, an indigenous people who live north of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 25, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4980 words)
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