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The Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Crime Lab

There are times when the crime lab at the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office functions like an episode of CSI: NY. Take, for instance, the case of the Hilton Netherland Plaza security guard who…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3209 words)

The Plot to Destroy America's Beer

Brian Rinfret likes imported beer from Germany. He sometimes buys Spaten. He enjoys an occasional Bitburger. When he was 25 years old, he discovered Beck’s, a pilsner brewed in the city of…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3929 words)

Student Loans: Debt for Life

This much we know: College pays. You can lose your house to foreclosure, but never your education. Four-year college graduates’ pay advantage over high school grads has doubled over the past…
AUTHOR:Peter Coy
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2595 words)

Rude Boys

H ot Sauce Committee Part Two , out May 3, is, according to the Beastie Boys, a return to their fundamental smartassery after 2004 s uncharacteristically serious To the 5 Boroughs, which was, in…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (816 words)

Magic Mountain

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, was well under way when it officially commenced, early on a Wednesday evening in January, with an address, in the Congress Hall…
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2012
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8061 words)

Genome Map Helps Improve Cancer Treatments

Enlarge image Kristal James
PUBLISHED: Jan. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2647 words)

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

Like many in the literary world, LARB’s fiction editor Matthew Specktor was intrigued by the appearance, on Twitter and elsewhere online, of people claiming to be critics Michiko Kakutani and…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2626 words)

The King of All Vegas Real Estate Scams

Before the market crashed and home prices tumbled, before federal investigators showed up and hauled away the community records, before her property managers pled guilty for conspiring to rig…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 8, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (623 words)

Now That Books Mean Nothing

Emil Robinson, Pink Book, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Waterhouse & Dodd. About a month ago, I had surgery. I am not sick, but the surgery was to reduce my risk of becoming sick in the future:…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3582 words)
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