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Mira Ptacin: Is Baby a Luxury?

When a chemical stick revealed that our little family was about to change, we were overjoyed. But not insured. Image from Flickr via Pensiero By Mira Ptacin This past year, I found myself in a…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3118 words)

Death in Singapore - FT.com

On June 24 last year, the body of a young US electronics engineer, Shane Todd, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment. Police said it was suicide, but the Todd family believe he was murdered.…
SOURCE:www.ft.com
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5566 words)

A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked

Joe Stewart’s day starts at 6:30 a.m. in Myrtle Beach, S.C., with a peanut butter sandwich, a sugar-free Red Bull, and 50,000 or so pieces of malware waiting in his e-mail in-box. Stewart, 42,…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 14, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3183 words)

Germs Are Us

ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF SCIENCE about the human microbiome. Human beings are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; the bacteria living inside us weigh, all told, about three pounds (the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 22, 2012

Hacking the President’s DNA

This is how the future arrived. It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly performed in-house, by a single employee, could more…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1619 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)

The Last Famine

Early in February, without much fanfare, the United Nations officially declared the famine over in the Horn of Africa. This is welcome news. Last summer, when the worst drought in 60 years was…
PUBLISHED: March 2, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (780 words)

The Defender

Manute Bols journey from Sudan to the NBA and back again by Jordan Conn The Atavist No. 6 $2.99 for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch (Full multimedia version, including exclusive audio and video, a…

My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. Baka malamig doon were among the few words she said. (It…
PUBLISHED: June 22, 2011
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4602 words)
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