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The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz

Why a member of the Polish underground sent himself into the infamous prison camp David de Sola "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." - Julius Caesar;…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3358 words)

When Spike Lee Became Scary

The director's movies aren't actually that incendiary, but media's reception of Do the Right Thing 23 years ago created an unfair image that persists today: that of a reckless provocateur. Universal…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1748 words)

A Year Inside a Medical Residency: Part 1

As new doctors spend their first days in the hospital, they learn what their lives are really going to be.[flickr/JoseGoulao]I am the director of a medical residency training program. Over the next…
PUBLISHED: July 28, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1426 words)

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5296 words)

Why Companies Fail

The American auto industry—an industry that’s been the proud symbol of America’s manufacturing might for a century, an industry that helped to build our middle class—is once…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2295 words)
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