“He grew up lower middle class and toiled away at menial jobs while chasing his dreams—the lone white boy battling in an almost entirely Black environment. The plot of 8 Mile was Vanilla Ice’s story first.”
Carolyn Wells
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“Great,” she says resignedly. “What I’ll always be known for is writing this poem about how bad things are, and maybe they could be better, but they’re bad.”
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Who Gets a Vaccine?
We may not have a COVID-19 vaccine, but who will even get it when we do?
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How to Vaccinate a Planet
“By mid-August, preorders of COVID-19 vaccine candidates were reportedly stretching toward 6 billion doses, almost all of them claimed by wealthy nations. None of these vaccines has yet been proven to work.”
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My Week Shadowing a Tornado Hunter in Oklahoma
Storm chasing tours are more popular than ever — Linda Logan sets out to find out why — while chasing a tornado.
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The Battle Over Dyslexia
A dive into the contentious and messy world of diagnosing dyslexia.
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‘Our Foster Child Asked Us to Adopt Him – By Drawing Himself on to a Family Photo’
The story of how, after years of difficulty, George finally found his family.
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‘A Felony Just to Own’: The Sleazy Story Behind Penthouse’s Most Controversial Issue
“Peter Bloch, Penthouse‘s then-executive editor: “It was the best-selling issue of Penthouse of all time. Hands down. A complete sellout in, like, two days. You couldn’t get a copy. So there were guys paying—and this is something I saw with my own eyes—a dollar for a peek. A peek!””
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What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?
Are we living in a computer simulation that has been created by our future selves?
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How Philanthropy Benefits the Super-Rich
““We should expect inequality to decrease somewhat as philanthropy increases … It has not,” writes Kevin Laskowski, a field associate at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.”