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The world's deadliest road

Crash: a head-on smash between two trucjs on the Dhaka to Sylhet highway. Photograph: Richard Wix for the Observer We saw the bus before we saw the rickshaw. Abandoned on the side of the road, its…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2352 words)

The Inside Story of a Controversial New Text About Jesus

Harvard researcher Karen King today unveiled an ancient papyrus fragment with the phrase, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife.’” The text also mentions “Mary,”…
LENGTH: 50 minutes (12569 words)

The Punch Insider Trading Case

Peter Foley/Bloomberg NewsDavid Einhorn, chief of Greenlight Capital, was fined about $11 million last month in the insider trading case.Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn has gained a…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1520 words)

The Mormons and the Presidency

Mitt Romney is not the first Mormon to make a run for the Presidency. His father, George, was briefly the G.O.P. frontrunner in 1968, before losing the nomination to Richard Nixon. That same year,…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (295 words)

Heroes of the Hot Zone

The three men, all in their 30s, might be any construction workers knocking back Sapporos at a tiny izakaya, or neighborhood bar. Around them is the friendly clutter of any small, working-class…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1405 words)

I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

The author, who writes under a pseudonym, is a Japanese sushi chef. In 1982, at the invitation of a Japanese-North Korean trading company, he started working in a sushi restaurant in Pyongyang. In…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1693 words)

Read It Later

By Coco Krumme and Mark Armstrong Saving a story for later can tell us a lot about loyalty, longevity and quality—and it changes the way we think about the most popular stories on the web If…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1570 words)

National Review Online

When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come and see. So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3578 words)

The Michael Lewis World Tour of Economic Collapse

The Michael Lewis World Tour of Economic Collapse Michael Lewis / Vanity Fair / 2009-2011
PUBLISHED: Sept. 29, 2011
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