A new study on the Eastern Band population of Cherokee, North Carolina — a group of people who receive hefty bi-annual payments from the local casino — indicates that yes, a basic guaranteed income can be a very positive thing that has no influence on the number of people who work full time.
Krista Stevens
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The Problem of Pain
Pain is indeed inherited, but treating it as an affliction need not be handed down from generation to generation.
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The Big Black Market for Spare Human Body Parts
Beware, should you donate your body to science in the US. Lightly regulated, the industry is ripe for fraudsters trying to make a buck on your personage.
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Arms Dealers
Peter Andrey Smith reports on the black market big business of body brokers — those who prepare donated human remains for study by students, doctors, and scientists. A single human cadaver, parted out efficiently, can fetch $100,000 in a lightly regulated industry that’s ripe for fraudsters trying to make a buck on the donated dead.
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Bringing Up the Bodies: How NecroSearch Helps Police to Locate the Dead
Why do they volunteer their time in such a grisly enterprise? To bring closure to the families of the dead.
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Lost and Found
Robert Sanchez profiles members of NecroSearch, a Colorado-based volunteer organization made up of dedicated lab experts, scientists, and skilled technicians. NecroSearchers apply decades of specialized experience to help law enforcement officers locate dead bodies. Their reward? Bringing closure to the families of the deceased.
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The Teen Girls Who Defied Boko Haram
The bravest members of the Nigerian resistance are the teenage girls who refuse to become tools of terrorism.
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Boko Haram Strapped Suicide Bombs to Them. Somehow These Teenage Girls Survived.
The New York Times interviewed 18 teen girls — all of whom were kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria to become suicide bombers for their cause. Unwilling to hurt and kill innocents, these girls — some as young as 13 years old — bravely defied the militants and sought help from citizens and soldiers alike […]
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The Female Fracker: A Rare Species in North Dakota
Imagine being the only woman living with 200 roughnecks — risking your personal safety every day — just to make a buck.
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It Takes a Boom
In an essay adapted from The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown, Blaire Briody profiles female fracker Cindy Marchello, who survived hellish working conditions and rampant misogyny trying to earn a living in service of big American companies thirsty for oil.