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Power of Suggestion

January 30, 2013 Mark Abramson for The Chronicle ReviewJohn Bargh rocked the world of social psychology with experiments that showed the power of unconscious cues over our behavior. Enlarge Image…

Catch Me If You Can

Robert with his grandmother Norma Jean Williams in Virginia    Photographer: Susan Worsham A BALL OF FIRE with twinkling blue eyes, Robert Arthur Wood Jr. is a four-foot-six, 70-pound…
AUTHOR:Dean King
PUBLISHED: Aug. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7144 words)

The Education of Dasmine Cathey

He hid them in a shoebox under his bed. "My own little secret," he said. Inside the box, he kept 10 thin paperbacks he was given as a child. For years he didn't touch them. But as he reached 19, they…
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5801 words)

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

For a while, their message was everywhere. They paid for billboards, took out full-page ads in newspapers, distributed thousands of tracts. They drove across the county in RVs emblazoned with verses…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2750 words)
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Casino

Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons When Trisha comes to town we have to go out. She’s the bitterest soccer mom of all time and as part of her escape from home she wants to get drunk and complain…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4270 words)

Angry Words

By Tom Bartlett A Christian missionary sets out to convert a remote Amazonian tribe. He lives with them for years in primitive conditions, learns their extremely difficult language, risks his life…
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4504 words)
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