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Why our food is making us fat

Who is responsible for making us fat? Photograph: Pat Doyle/CORBIS Up a rickety staircase at the Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester, England hangs a portrait of Britain's first obese man, painted in…
PUBLISHED: June 11, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2681 words)

Caballo Blanco’s Last Run: The Micah True Story

Micah True's body was found about a mile above this section of Little Creek in the Gila Wilderness, near Silver City, N.M. More Photos » GILA HOT SPRINGS, N.M. — Micah True went off alone on a…
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (790 words)

Burma's military junta accused of torturing and killing ethnic rebels

The villagers scattered as machine guns raked the darkness, fleeing from the Burmese troops into the thick of the jungle. When day came they crept from their hiding places to find each other.Nu La…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 18, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1880 words)

The crisis facing Britain's education system

Watching the anarchic, frightening scenes erupt on the streets of London, Birmingham, Manchester, and many more urban areas over the last week, a single word kept reverberating around my…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 16, 2011
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2289 words)
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