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The Money Shot

The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom, it…
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4467 words)

On Living Abroad

Living in a foreign country doesn't mean leaving life as you know it completely behind. Before I moved to Barcelona, though, I thought that's what a "true adventure" was. Because that's often the…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1671 words)

How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy

Vickie, Alice, Lisa, Debbie, Barbara, Chris, Clair and Cootz boarded the Los Angeles-bound Sunset Limited in Schriever, La., and immediately took residence in the glass-sheathed Sightseer Lounge car.…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (711 words)
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On The Road Again

A dirt road scrolls beneath a pair of huarache sandals. In a flash, it turns from moonlit to sunlit, and the pebbly dirt smoothes to bleached, cracked concrete. The shot lingers three or four beats…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 15, 2013
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7944 words)

Worry Lines - January 7, 2011

Worry LinesHow I learned to keep worrying. One advantage of having younger friends used to be that they were more cheerful and optimistic than I was.  It seemed then that the decade between us…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1322 words)

How China Sees America

"Great power" is a vague term, but China deserves it by any measure: the extent and strategic location of its territory, the size and dynamism of its population, the value and growth rate of its…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (339 words)

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Our positive capability.

I suppose, as a poet, among my fears can be counted the deep-seated uneasiness that one day it will be revealed that I consecrated my life to an imbecility. Part of what I mean—what I think I…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5649 words)
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Single Women Gaining Limited Acceptance in Iran

"When my mother was young, finding a husband and having children was the only measurement of success. Now — at least to me — it is the least important factor. -- SHOUFOUKEH, a student who is planning…
PUBLISHED: June 12, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (719 words)
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