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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)

Depression Part Two

I remember being endlessly entertained by the adventures of my toys. Some days they died repeated, violent deaths, other days they traveled to space or discussed my swim lessons and how I absolutely…
AUTHOR:Allie
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1991 words)

The Electric Typewriter

Selected features, articles and essays from the world's best journalists and writers. 150 Essential Science & Tech Reads Psychology TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson Adventures in My Bed by…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1028 words)

A Snitch’s Dilemma

Kathryn Johnston was doing pretty well until the night the police showed up. Ever since her sister died, Johnston, 92, had lived alone in a rough part of Atlanta called the Bluff. A niece checked in…
PUBLISHED: June 29, 2012
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7486 words)

New Bruce Jenner Interview - Esquire Bruce Jenner Kardashian Story

At the Jenner manse in Hidden Hills, California, as Kylie, left, and Kendall are being shot for the new season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Published in the June/July 2012 issue Fathers suffer…
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (895 words)

The U.S. Military’s “Third-Country Nationals”

It was lunchtime in Suva, Fiji, a slow day at the end of the tourist season in September of 2007, when four men appeared in the doorway of the Rever Beauty Salon, where Vinnie Tuivaga worked as a…
PUBLISHED: June 6, 2011
LENGTH: 1 minutes (466 words)

After the death of Jack Kevorkian, Lawrence Egbert is the new public face of American assisted suicide

Dust speckles shelves up on the third story. Wood floors creak. Walls and cabinets in the cramped office, tucked into a red-brick Baltimore rowhouse, channel a generation’s worth of…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5775 words)

The Triumph of Kodakery: The Camera Maker May Die, But the Culture It Created Survives

The popularizer of photography is on its corporate deathbed, but the culture it created is stronger than ever Think about what we mean when we talk about a gadget. They are technological objects…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1364 words)

Azealia Banks and the charge of the women MCs

It's typical. You wait years for a frank and fearless female rapper, and then five come at once. Maybe it's something in the air, or simply that the success of Nicki Minaj has opened the floodgates…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1708 words)
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