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The Price of a Stolen Childhood

When Nicole was a child, her father took pornographic pictures of her that still circulate on the internet. The detective spread out the photographs on the kitchen table, in front of Nicole, on
PUBLISHED: Jan. 24, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (730 words)

Bones of Contention

Eric Prokopi, of Gainesville, in the five-thousand-square-foot fossil workshop that he built in his back yard. Photograph by Richard Barnes.
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 41 minutes (10453 words)

A Pickpocket’s Tale

A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a…
AUTHOR:Adam Green
PUBLISHED: Jan. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8104 words)

The Best Longreads on Gun Violence and Policy

The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 15, 2012

How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us

All mapped out … 'There's a fine line between this being really useful and it being creepy' Over the last few years, at the kinds of conferences where the world's technological elite gathers to…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2058 words)

Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network

The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have been unimaginable with the old tools of phone taps and informants.Michael Christopher Brown He once was known as al-Jamil—the…
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2012
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6282 words)

National Geographic Adventure Magazine

Text by Mark Sundeen Oh dear: Rudi has thrown another wobbly. This time his tantrum is directed at a folding canvas bush chair that he is booting across the African desert. "Why can’t one…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6805 words)
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Château Sucker

Above: Pétrus 1961 (real). Below: Pétrus 1961 (fake).  (Photo: Jeffery Salter/Redux) Even at Rudy Kurniawan's coming-out party in September 2003, there were questionable bottles…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (861 words)

read his legacy of award-winning work

Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning foreign correspondent, died at the age of 43 in Syria, while reporting for the New York Times. A beloved and brilliant writer, Shadid spent his two-decade career…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (340 words)
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