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The Prophets of Oak Ridge

by Dan Zak Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. A…
AUTHOR:Dan Zak
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2013
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9422 words)

Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky

As Singapore Airlines flight 322 descended through the early-morning haze toward Heathrow, Bradley L. Garrett, Ph.D.—just Brad to his research subjects—looked out over the gray sprawl…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6469 words)
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A Day in the Life of a Digital Editor, 2013

The biz ain't what it used to be, but then again, for most people, it never really was. Man, I feel everyone on how scary it is to be in journalism. When I made the transition from a would-be fiction…
PUBLISHED: March 6, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4118 words)

Making it click

What it takes to change the rural habit of driving unbelted I’ve been working on a special project at the paper since mid-November, and it is out today. Joining in on a project begun by…
AUTHOR:zachcrizer
PUBLISHED: Feb. 24, 2013
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The Hanging

The road to Hoskins Cemetery snakes deep into the Daniel Boone National Forest, a 700,000-acre swath of rugged wilderness in southeastern Kentucky. The cemetery isn’t easy to find; it lies hidden…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2287 words)

Theater of Pain

Published in the February 2013 issue, on sale any day now My left knee has been aching this entire week. I don't know why. I didn't get hit directly on it in the last game. My right knee has started…
AUTHOR:Tom Junod
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5926 words)

A Pickpocket’s Tale

A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a…
AUTHOR:Adam Green
PUBLISHED: Jan. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1009 words)

Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up

Jerry Seinfeld: How to Write a Joke: The comedian describes the anatomy of his Pop-Tart joke, still a work in progress, and shows his longhand writing process.
PUBLISHED: Dec. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (753 words)

Reading to remember from 2012

It is, of course, tremendously difficult to narrow down an entire year in the increasingly vast world of great narrative journalism into a Top 5 list, but I am a sucker for lists, so I did it again…
AUTHOR:zachcrizer
PUBLISHED: Dec. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (583 words)
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