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They Taught America to Watch Football

In the summer of 1968, Steve Sabol went on the road. He was driving a beat-up old car with the windows open. From Pennsylvania to Ohio to Indiana, the towns drifted by, the neon vacancy signs outside…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2296 words)

American Sweetheart

One evening in mid-February, Marlen Esparza and her coach, Rudy Silva, arrived at the Northern Quest Resort and Casino in Airway Heights, a small suburb west of Spokane, Washington, and walked to an…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1482 words)

Robert Caro and L.B.J. in the Archive

This week, the magazine publishes Robert A. Caro’s account of Lyndon Johnson’s accession to the Presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The article is taken from the…
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (488 words)

Shark Week: Remembering Bruce, the Mechanical Shark in 'Jaws'

There are only a few dozen shark attacks on humans every year. It has been widely reported that you are 30 times more likely to die from a lightning strike than you are from an…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 3, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1585 words)
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