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Wracked with cancer, St. Petersburg senior has one goal: graduation

ST. PETERSBURG The teenagers all began itching in the springtime, for their yearbooks, for the final bell, for summer break, for it all. It was all so close now, here at Dixie Hollins High School.…
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2968 words)

Bret Dunlap Discovered Running and It Changed His Life

Photo: Bret Dunlap makes his way to work in Rhinelander. See more photos + + + You know what people think. They see jeans too short and winter coat too shiny, too grimy, and think, homeless. They…
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8948 words)

Roger Ebert: The Essential Man

More Ebert photos & intimate moments >> Published in the March 2010 "Essentials" issue Roger Ebert died at 70 on April 4, 2013.
PUBLISHED: Feb. 16, 2010
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6631 words)

Tales of a 60-year-old hitchhiker

I knew they could see me. Families on their way to the lake, truckers hauling loads on deadlines, couples heading for church or breakfast – they all would have found me directly in their line of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 27, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3625 words)

Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions

Before his addiction, Richard Fee was a popular college class president and aspiring medical student. "You keep giving Adderall to my son, you're going to kill him," said Rick Fee, Richard's father,…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (885 words)

Memory to myth: tracing Aaron Swartz through the 21st century

To understand his contributions, we have to look beyond the headlines I met Aaron Swartz in Cambridge shortly after he’d been indicted for downloading lots of JSTOR articles on MIT’s…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: Jan. 22, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4867 words)

Since 1979, Brian Murtagh has fought to keep convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald in prison

WILMINGTON, N.C. — They are old men now, the doctor and the lawyer, ancient adversaries confronting each other one last time. The doctor shuffles into the courtroom, his feet in socks and…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6510 words)

How Do You Raise a Prodigy?

Drew Petersen didn’t speak until he was 3½, but his mother, Sue, never believed he was slow. When he was 18 months old, in 1994, she was reading to him and skipped a word, whereupon Drew reached over…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4669 words)

The Hunt For “Geronimo”

President Obama saw it as a “50–50” proposition. Admiral Bill McRaven, mission commander, knew something would go wrong. So how did the raid that killed bin Laden get green-lighted? In an adaptation…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 39 minutes (9892 words)
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