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Love and Madness in the Jungle

The Benders in 2002 Photo: Courtesy of the Patton Family John and Ann Bender's haunting Costa Rica fortress.
AUTHOR:Ned Zeman
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8374 words)

Waiting for death, alone and unafraid

The silence of night never lasts long. It ends somewhere in the 5 o'clock hour with the purring of the heater and distant strains of Sam Cooke.Edwin Shneidman looks at the clock -- an hour and a half…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2009
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2077 words)

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4 articles Feature Writing The Living and the Dead Byliner Oct 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1002 words)

In Rust Belt, a teenager’s climb from poverty

Week after week, the mailman climbed the steep hill of Shenango Street to the house with the busted porch steps. “Dear Miss Rouzzo,” the letters began, or “Dear Tabitha…
AUTHOR:Anne Hull
PUBLISHED: Dec. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (567 words)

My outsourced Life

I really shouldn't have to write this article myself. I mean, why am I the one stuck in front of a computer terminal? All this tedious pecking out of words on my laptop. Nouns, verbs, adjectives,…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 1, 2005
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4623 words)

A father's long battle for his daughters

Luis Ernesto Rodriguez eyed the metal door as he waited for his little girls. Now 6 and 5 years old, they were his only children, inseparable, with thick black hair and mischievous smiles that…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2064 words)

Greater Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska sits about 190 miles from the geographic center of the continental United States. A large green sign suspended over Interstate 80 welcomes those entering from the east to “The…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2465 words)
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Los Angeles How KPCC's Quest for Latino Listeners Doomed The Madeleine Brand Show

ILLUSTRATION BY SKIP STERLING Brand and Martinez. The co-hosts, Martinez and Brand, in happier times PHOTO BY NANETTE GONZALES
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4696 words)
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The Truck Stop Killer

In the summer of 1985, somewhere near Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, the body of a young woman was pulled from a truck-stop Dumpster. I had just hitched a ride and was sitting in a nearby truck waiting…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7949 words)
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