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How 1 Billion People Are Coping With Death and Facebook

"I think I'm going to go online," said Cheryl, logging in to Facebook from her hospital bed. She soon reconsidered, however. "I don't know what to write: 'Hey I almost died last night. What's up with…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 13, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3465 words)

Chris Jones on How Teller Got His Magic Back

Published in the October 2012 issue On or about March 15 of this year, Teller — the smaller, quieter half of the magicians Penn & Teller — says he received an e-mail from a friend in…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1983 words)
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The Disappeared

The author, photographed in London in 1994, five years after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence forced him into hiding. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (985 words)

Robert Caro revives Kennedy-Johnson feud

To be a Democrat in Washington in the mid-1960s was to be confronted daily with the burning question: Which side are you on?There was the side with the power, President Lyndon B. Johnson and his team…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (673 words)

Take me out to the boardroom (Fortune, 1997)

Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, we turn to a July 1997 feature on the Los Angeles Dodgers. Team owner Frank McCourt…
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4013 words)

Mail Supremacy

On Thursday, January 19th, the front page of the Daily Mail carried a story about Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland. During Goodwin’s tenure, from 2000…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (990 words)
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