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Lost on Everest

Chapter 5 After a brief lull and a celebration for the successful summit team, the climbers began to regroup for the next summit bids. Hornbein and Unsoeld were relentless in their pursuit of the new…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (922 words)

How Kehinde Wiley Makes A Masterpiece: Art + Design: GQ

Down the middle of this busy African beach, in stupendous summer heat, Kehinde Wiley is striding, a man you couldn't miss: that black guy—which is to say not Arab, whi
SOURCE:www.gq.com
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (934 words)
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The Paris Review

In an October 1957 letter to a friend who had recommended he read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Hunter S. Thompson wrote, “Although I don't feel that it's at all necessary to tell you how I…
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8616 words)

Spring Travel Issue: Cold War-era tourist sites feature weapons of mass attraction

A training intercontinental ballistic missile at Delta-09 missile silo near Wall, S.D.(Courtesy National Park Service) In the early 1980s, when I was a fifth-grader at Jefferson Elementary School, in…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3394 words)

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2162 words)

America's Hardest Working Know-It-All

Ken Jennings will admit that during his record-setting Jeopardy run of 74 straight wins in 2004, he lied to Alex Trebek. It was about airline food. The host was interviewing him after the show's…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3568 words)

Nike: The No. 1 Most Innovative Company Of 2013

"This is the raw stuff." Stefan Olander, head of Nike's three-year-old Digital Sport division, is watching a group of his engineers hack an experiment together. They're using a pair of Nike trainers…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3947 words)

OTL: Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Analytics issue. SUBSCRIBE TODAY » CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Five weeks before his 50th birthday, Michael Jordan sits behind his desk, overlooking a parking…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7823 words)

Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction

The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2013
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9048 words)
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