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The Bitcoin Boom

On March 16th, the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who’d been in office for about a month, announced a strategy to solve the country’s banking crisis. This plan, which would be…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3610 words)

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 96 minutes (24228 words)

A real world series: Inside the world championship of blind baseball

Pitchers and catchers. It used to be a magical phrase. It buried the past. It meant that this might be the year for Royals and the Pirates. It erased the last memories of a World Series that, most of…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4057 words)

Frank Ocean Can Fly

Frank Ocean, the 25-year-old singer who released the hit album "Channel Orange" in July, 2012. Frank Ocean did not want to ride in my rented Ford Fusion; that much was clear. After I parked the car,…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6215 words)

The String Theory

Originally published in the July 1996 issue When Michael T. Joyce of Los Angeles serves, when he tosses the ball and his face rises to track it, it looks like he’s smiling, but he’s not…
PUBLISHED: June 28, 2010
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9348 words)

Shooting for perfection: Basketball legend Rick Barry was virtually flawless shooting the underhand free throw. Why won’t anyone give it a try?

The free throw is nearly as old as basketball itself. The shot dates almost as far back as when rules were first recorded at a gym in Springfield, Mass., by the game’s creator, Dr. James…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5290 words)

How Authors Write

The stream-of-consciousness lyricism of On the Road derives in no small part from the fact that Kerouac typed it on a continuous scroll of paper. Early in Nicholson Baker's slim first novel, The…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2579 words)

Let’s Be Friends

Why else would Obama spend hours on a golf course being lectured by Clinton?
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Sept. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (980 words)

The Many Sides of Jack Dorsey

Photo: Art Streiber Conversations with Jack Dorsey frequently veer into obscure subject matter. Job interviews pivot into 30-minute disquisitions on the New York Yankees. Press briefings transform…
PUBLISHED: June 22, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4527 words)
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