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Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine

Michelle Crosby, an energetic 37-year-old lawyer in Boise, Idaho, applied for a loan last November from a local bank, Western Capital. She proposed to use the money, $10,000, to help start a new…
PUBLISHED: May 2, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5738 words)

The Weeklies

From the outside, it is hard to know that people live in the Ramada Inn. The parking lot is always empty. The hotel sits facing a wide suburban boulevard called Kipling Street, just off Interstate 70…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7232 words)

Is Sugar the Next Tobacco?

Among the least likely viral megahits on YouTube is a 90-minute lecture by the food scold and pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, entitled “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.” He delivers it…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2944 words)

What's It Like to Wake Up From a Tea Party Binge? Just Ask Florida!

The really desperate come early. George Bishop, 61, a lanky, gray-haired cabinet builder in a tropical shirt, has a red, swollen nose from a boil caused by his third sinus infection in the past five…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1969 words)

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Thanksgiving Longreads: What Lab Creation Are You Eating?

1947 Spam ad featuring pineapple and BBQ sauce. Yum? James Vaughan /Flickr For the past hundred years or so, the food industry has used the laws of chemistry to beat nature into submission. Apples…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1149 words)

Paradise With an Asterisk

A U.S. military bunker blights the view on Namu Island. Photo: Corey Arnold
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5753 words)

Boss Rail

On the morning of July 23, 2011, passengers hurried across Beijing South Station at the final call to board bullet train D301, heading south on the world’s largest, fastest, and newest high-speed…
AUTHOR:Evan Osnos
PUBLISHED: Oct. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7974 words)

The Way It Was

The author at 17.In 1959, when I was a precocious smarty-pants still in grade school, I wrote a fake letter to Doris Blake, the New York Daily News advice columnist. I pretended to be a teenage girl…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1955 words)
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