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'Going to the Woods Is Going Home'

Bridalveil Falls at Yosemite National Park (Tracie Cone/AP) Sierra Club founder and nature writer John Muir spent years in the Yosemite Valley, an area he was instrumental in preserving as a state…
AUTHOR:John Muir
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2013
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9701 words)

I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

The author, who writes under a pseudonym, is a Japanese sushi chef. In 1982, at the invitation of a Japanese-North Korean trading company, he started working in a sushi restaurant in Pyongyang. In…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1693 words)

Hip-Hop Happens

Hip-hop, hibbit to the hibbit to the hip-hip-hop and you dont stop The moment this strange incantation bubbled up through urban airwaves in October 1979, the genie was out of the bottle. This…
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9005 words)
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