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Quite Likely the Worst Job Ever

A tosher at work c. 1850 ,sieving raw sewage in one of the dank, dangerous and uncharted sewers beneath the streets of London. From Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor. To live in…
AUTHOR:Mike Dash
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3290 words)

The U.S. Military’s “Third-Country Nationals”

It was lunchtime in Suva, Fiji, a slow day at the end of the tourist season in September of 2007, when four men appeared in the doorway of the Rever Beauty Salon, where Vinnie Tuivaga worked as a…
PUBLISHED: June 6, 2011
LENGTH: 1 minutes (466 words)

Battleground America

Every American can be his own policeman; the country has nearly as many guns as it has people. Photograph by Christopher Griffith.
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1042 words)

What Happens When A 35-Year-Old Man Retakes The SAT?

I took the SAT a grand total of one time when I was in dipshit prep school. This was 1993. Like any other kid, I wanted to do well on the test, primarily so that I would NEVER have to take it again,…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3431 words)

The Siege of September 13

Like most of the American staff, Jayne Howell rarely went outside the walls of the Kabul embassy. Beyond the blast barriers and fences of green anti-sniper netting was a city where "official…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7775 words)

Thirsty : 2012 January : New Orleans

LENGTH: 9 minutes (2330 words)
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