“Embarking on four days of total blackout, inside the sensory equivalent of a tomb, our writer went on a dark-cave retreat, the same one that quarterback Aaron Rodgers did.”
Carolyn Wells
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I Was 14. He Was 22. If It Wasn’t Grooming, What Is?
“The world has normalized these stories of abuse. After four years, I freed myself – but how much had I already been shaped?”
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The Opus Dei Diaries
“How girls around the world were coerced into decades of gruelling service to the secretive Catholic group.”
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The Many Lifetimes of an Old Red Bike
“Five generations of a family’s love, told through a bicycle.”
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The Urban Legend That Won’t Die on This Deadly Bay Area Highway
“According to local legend, the ghost of a San Francisco girl who was killed in a car crash returns to the site of her death every year, popping into drivers’ back seats in an attempt to hitch a ride back to the city.”
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‘All These Normal People, Packed Into a Human Lasagne’: My Glamour-Free Night at the Oscars
“While the cameras lingered on the stars in Los Angeles, thousands of non-celebrities were whooping it up in the Dolby theatre’s cheap seats. I was one of them.”
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Kate Winslet Pushes Her Characters, and Herself, to the Edge
“As a young star, she endured Hollywood’s brutal treatment of women. Now she’s putting her resilience and grit on full display.”
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An Ice Climbing Disaster on Mount Katahdin. A Desperate Race to Save Lives.
“It was a mild winter day in 1974 when six climbers set out on a route no one had ever attempted. Then came Pamola’s Fury.”
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The Last Stand of the Call-Centre Worker
“AI is poised to eliminate customer-service agents. We’ll miss them when they’re gone.”
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Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II
“Inside the search for a plane shot down over the Pacific—and the new effort to bring its fallen heroes home.”