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Image by Dominic Bracco II/PrimeJumping the Camino Real, near the border of El Paso, Texas. The interior of the school bus is awash in blue light, lumberin

2. The Man Who Broke Atlantic CityMark Bowden | The Atlantic | March 14, 2012 | 15 Minutes (3,915 words)How did a blackjack player manage to win $15 million from Atlantic City casinos over the…

Romance fiction is widely reckoned to be a very low form of literature. Maybe the lowest, if we're not counting the writing at Groupon, or on Splenda packets. Romance fiction: probably the worst! An…

Engineer Eben Upton with a prototype of the Raspberry Pi computer, which will cost around 15 and is fully programmable and capable of running sosphisticated software such as Firefox.…

Once upon a time, a little boy loved a stuffed animal whose name was Old Rabbit. It was so old, in fact, that it was really an unstuffed animal; so old that even back then, with the little boy's brain still nice and fresh, he had no memory of it as "Young Rabbit," or even "Rabbit"; so old that Old Rabbit was barely a rabbit at all but rather a greasy hunk of skin without eyes and ears, with a single red stitch where its tongue used to be. The little boy didn't know why he loved Old Rabbit; he just did, and the night he threw it out the car window was the night he learned how to pray.