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Columbia Journalism Review - The Audit

Posted on Thursday Jan 17th at 3:11pm By Dean StarkmanNo one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you…
SOURCE:m.cjr.org
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1203 words)

Myanmar declares war on opium

TAR PU VILLAGE, Shan State, Myanmar (Reuters) - In Myanmar's new war on drugs, meet the weapon of mass destruction: the weed-whacker. Its two-stroke engine spins a metal blade, which is more…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2689 words)

Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides

Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India began to prepare themselves for their sacred vows.
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2011
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4411 words)
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