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Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer

I used to believe that a mammogram saved my life. I even wrote that in the pages of this magazine. It was 1996, and I had just turned 35 when my doctor sent me for an initial screening — a…
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (762 words)

The Sordid Death of Hedge-Funder Seth Tobias -- New York Magazine

Illustration by Dienststelle 75  (Photo: Angie Smith (Ash); Michael Price (Seth and Filomena Tobias); Henry Arden/Zefa/Corbis(Body)) It ended in the pool. The whole tragic cartoon. That…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 10, 2008
LENGTH: 3 minutes (828 words)

The Expendables: Inside America's Elite Search And Rescue Dog Training Center

Image by Joe Flood Callie was a washout. A Labrador retriever raised to be a seeing-eye dog, her bold curiosity was ill-suited to a life of leading around the blind, leaving her a born-and-bred…
AUTHOR:Joe Flood
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2013
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7454 words)

Out in the Great Alone

I landed in Anchorage in the middle of the night. The next morning, I drove an hour north to Wolf Lake Airport, a private airfield near Wasilla. You know those old photo-backdrop screens that little…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4720 words)

Ana Montes did much harm spying for Cuba. Chances are, you haven’t heard of her.

PUBLISHED: April 18, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6044 words)

Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams

"See! That shit keeps popping up on my fucking computer!" says a blond woman as she leans back on a couch, bottle-feeding a baby on her lap. The woman is visible from thousands of miles away on a…
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1821 words)

Was Knute Rockne Killed By The Mob? Tracing The Origins Of One Of The Stranger Urban Legends In Sports

On the morning of March 31, 1931, TWA Flight 599, en route from Kansas City to Los Angeles, fell out of the sky over the Flint Hills of central Kansas, near the community of Bazaar. Farmers on the…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2723 words)

For Poor Strivers, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall

Angelica Gonzales, admitted to Emory, hoped to be the first college graduate in her family. GALVESTON, Tex. — Angelica Gonzales marched through high school in Goth armor — black boots, chains and…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (689 words)

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USTIN, Texas -- Hundreds of cyclists, their tight, wildly colored jerseys showing off varying levels of fitness, crowd the starting line just before dawn. Most face a podium festooned in yellow and…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4478 words)
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