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After the Mile

(This is the first chapter of a five-part article to be published in full on Thursday, March 14.) SAN DIEGO — It was to be a reunion of Southern California’s top high school runners,…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (913 words)

Chasing the Higgs

Collision Course: It was the longest, most costly manhunt in science, for an elusive particle that was said to be key to the workings of the universe. For a generation of physicists, it was an…
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (915 words)
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The case of the phantom ballots: an electoral whodunit

The first phantom absentee ballot request hit the Miami-Dade elections website at 9:11 p.m. Saturday, July 7.The next one came at 9:14. Then 9:17. 9:22. 9:24. 9:25.Within 2½ weeks, 2,552 online…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 23, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (527 words)
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Raising Adam Lanza

Shortly after her move from New Hampshire to Newtown in 1998, Nancy Lanza had good news about her troubled son. "Adam is doing well here, and seems to be enjoying the new school," Lanza wrote to a…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 17, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (701 words)
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Thank you for killing my novel

(Credit: Benjamin Wheelock) Last Sunday night I spent a good five minutes lying facedown on my couch, my head pressed into the crack between our old tan cushions, my arms pinned awkwardly under my…
PUBLISHED: July 5, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2755 words)

How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down

Image Design: Giles Revell No one but Hector Xavier Monsegur can know why or when he became Sabu, joining the strange and chaotic Internet collective known as Anonymous. But we know the moment he…
PUBLISHED: July 3, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1090 words)

Inside The Politico 'Cult'

On an early May evening, Politico executive editor and co-founder Jim VandeHei rallied his troops on the 30th floor of Allbritton Communications, located on the Virginia side of the Potomac and…
PUBLISHED: June 19, 2012
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5315 words)

I Am the World's Worst Sperm Donor

I don’t know why I’m never quoted in trend-pieces about What the Millennials Are Doing. I’m 23. I live in Brooklyn. I’m a perpetually underemployed graduate of a highly…
AUTHOR:Jack Stuef
PUBLISHED: Feb. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2871 words)

Long Story Shortlist, 9/11 Edition

Filling The Void: A Chance To Soar, by Herbert Muschamp (Sept. 30, 2001) The terrorists left many voids besides the loss of human lives and two big footprints in the earth. Holes in the social…
AUTHOR:THE STAFF
PUBLISHED: Sept. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 1 minutes (378 words)
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