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The Prophets of Oak Ridge

by Dan Zak Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. A…
AUTHOR:Dan Zak
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2013
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9422 words)

Inmates Rising: Desperate Gitmo Prisoners Tell Lawyers They Will Starve Themselves to Get Out

Detainees in Camp 4, one of the camps inside Camp Delta, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 8, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times)Abdulsalam Al-Hela does not understand why he and other…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3272 words)

My Weekend In America's So-Called 'Rape Capital'

"It's the altitude," the sweaty, red-cheeked fraternity brother explains. It is my first night in Missoula, Montana, and I am sitting on a stool at Stockman's Bar, watching girls in rhinestoned crop…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3822 words)

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B

Enlarge image Kenneth D. Lewis Former CEO of Bank of America Corp.
PUBLISHED: Nov. 28, 2011
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4263 words)

The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret

On the cut-and-kill floor of Quality Pork Processors Inc. in Austin, Minnesota, the wind always blows. From the open doors at the docks where drivers unload massive trailers of screeching pigs,…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1460 words)
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