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How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp

His first memory is an execution. He walked with his mother to a wheat field, where guards had rounded up several thousand prisoners. The boy crawled between legs to the front row, where he saw…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4944 words)

incredible stories of the boys who walked to Europe

LENGTH: 10 minutes (2689 words)

Peeling Oniontown

Travel By Aaron Lake Smith, Photos by Nadia Shira Cohen A young man angrily kicks one of the many piles of trash that are strewn about Oniontown. There are certain places that, by their very nature,…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (585 words)
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Get used to living with Mom and Dad

PUBLISHED: Jan. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2735 words)

Bigfoot by Robert Sullivan

Department of Open-Ended Investigations Open Spaces Home - Back Issues - Volume One Number Three - Bigfoot by Robert Sullivan Bigfoot by Robert Sullivan Among those who believe that such a thing as…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6191 words)
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The Gloucester Fish War

The bidding starts early at the seafood auction in Gloucester, Mass. Each day about 30 tons of fish—mostly cod, haddock, and flounder—come in by boat on Cape Ann, a fist jutting into the…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 22, 2011
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3515 words)
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The Riddle of Everest

Just before one o'clock on the afternoon of June 8, 1924, a British mountaineer named Noel Odell stood high on a rocky terrace of Mount Everest and gazed skyward, toward the uppermost reaches of the…
LENGTH: 41 minutes (10313 words)

The Fracturing of Pennsylvania

By ELIZA GRISWOLD Published: November 20, 2011 Amwell Township is a 44-square-mile plot of steep ravines and grassy pasturelands planted with alfalfa, trefoil and timothy in the southwestern corner…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 20, 2011
LENGTH: 1 minutes (263 words)

Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs

By Elizabeth Dwoskin Skinning, gutting, and cutting up catfish is not easy or pleasant work. No one knows this better than Randy Rhodes, president of Harvest Select, which has a processing plant…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3334 words)
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