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The Mistress and the Narcotraficante

This story is adapted from Ricardo C. Ainslie's The Fight to Save Juarez (UT Press).Elena first met Hernán at a bar. She was in her early twenties, hanging out in a Juárez club frequented…
PUBLISHED: April 3, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3447 words)

Going Gently Into That Good Night by Daniel Krieger

Photo courtesy Daniel Krieger If you’re dying and don’t care to wait around for death, you can always book your own appointment. One simple way to do this would be to stop eating and…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4417 words)

Why Amazon hired a car mechanic to run its cloud empire

On a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data centre in Ashburn,…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1570 words)

Wells Tower's Burning Man Experience - GQ February 2013

The land, the very atmosphere  out there, is alien, malignant, the executioner of countless wagon trains. I am afraid to crack the window. Huge dervishes of alkaline dust reel and teeter…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8568 words)
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Is Scientology Self-Destructing?

It's cold in Buffalo, and signs of the housing recovery are hard to see. Take the long walk down Main Street and you'll pass foreclosed homes, a shuttered hospice, and more than a few yellowing FOR…
AUTHOR:Alex Klein
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6023 words)

Blues Cruise

Evangelical operative Ralph Reed with an iguana.  (Photo: Joe Hagan) The whole thing was white, and broken, that much was clear. A week after the presidential election, when the dreams of…
AUTHOR:Joe Hagan
PUBLISHED: Dec. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (849 words)

Who’s Counting? At the White House, It’s Mark Knoller

“Mark, when was President Obama’s last full news conference?” asks a reporter from Reuters who, apparently on deadline, has just popped into the cramped press booth Mark Knoller…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 8, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1058 words)

How the North Dakota fracking boom shook a family

Traffic generated by an oil boom lines the main street in Watford City, North Dakota. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images In 1979, Brenda and Richard Jorgenson built a split level home in the…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 4, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4113 words)
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