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Why our food is making us fat

Who is responsible for making us fat? Photograph: Pat Doyle/CORBIS Up a rickety staircase at the Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester, England hangs a portrait of Britain's first obese man, painted in…
PUBLISHED: June 11, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2681 words)

Caballo Blanco’s Last Run: The Micah True Story

Micah True's body was found about a mile above this section of Little Creek in the Gila Wilderness, near Silver City, N.M. More Photos » GILA HOT SPRINGS, N.M. — Micah True went off alone on a…
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (790 words)

50 stunning Olympic moments No30: Zola Budd's rise and fall in 1984

America's Mary Decker plunges to the infield grass after a collision with Zola Budd, right, who was representing Great Britain. Photograph: Bob Langer/Associated Press The story of Zola Budd's…
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2936 words)
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In the Heartland

The Almanac of American Politics 2012 by Michael Barone and Chuck McCutcheon University of Chicago Press/National Journal Group, 1,838 pp., $85.00 (paper)            …
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1958 words)

In case you missed it ... Guardian and Observer long reads of the week

The Long Good Read in newspaper form. Photo: Dan Catt/Flickr We publish a lot of stories here on guardian.co.uk. On an average day, around 400 stories are launched by our editorial team and sometimes…
PUBLISHED: May 4, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (617 words)

World Shakespeare festival: around the Globe in 37 plays

Isle be damned … Miranda (Emily Taaffe) kisses Ferdinand (Solomon Israel) in the RSC's World Shakespeare festival production of The Tempest. Photograph: RSC This weekend, a curious ritual will…
PUBLISHED: April 20, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3839 words)

Swaziland's vibrant tourist industry masks a hunger for democracy

Culture and tradition are big selling points for Swaziland. Tourists looking for "the real Africa" are encouraged to see the big five wild animals on safari, visit villages or witness the…
PUBLISHED: April 11, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2035 words)

Who is the Route 29 Batman? This guy.

Join "Batman" for a live Q&A at noon ET on Thursday. You can submit questions now! Police pulled a man over on Route 29 in Silver Spring
PUBLISHED: March 29, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1679 words)

the man who stood witness for the world

One evening – we are not given a date, but it must be the early 1960s – the great French philosopher, essayist, novelist and pioneer of feminism Simone de Beauvoir was, as so often, at…
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4084 words)
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