Even when you’re already bracing for a negative response, no one expects an attack golfer.
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What It’s Like to Be One of the Few Men Who Volunteer as Abortion Clinic Escorts
His job? To protect women from pro-life protesters.
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Maybe We’ll Finally Figure It All Out in Third Life
What’s going on in Second Life? The same things that happen when any neighborhood is abandoned.
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Brain in a Bucket
A Dallas doctor’s cutting-edge technique to identify brain matter helped convict an alleged axe murderer. But where exactly did the doctor get the brains?
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When the Answers Wash Out with the Tide
Police eventually figured out who killed Jaimee Mendez, but not how or why.
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Don’t Eat Before Reading This
A pre-Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain starts spilling the secrets of restaurant chefs.
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In Just 40 Hours, You Too Can Be an Expert
Pamela Colloff took the same 40-hour course that is the sum total of the training many blood spatter experts claim… and it did not inspire confidence in the reliability of this particular forensic “science.”
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‘This Place Is Crazy’: How America’s Cell Blocks Became Its Psych Wards
Ten of every eleven psychiatric patients housed by the government are incarcerated. Here’s what this crisis looks like from the inside—a series of lost lives and a few rare victories—as reported by a prisoner-journalist.
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Drawing a Line in the Sand Over River Rights
A four-year battle over a tiny patch of river beach in Northern California Outillustrates the deep divide in how we perceive access rights to public lands
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Life Under (Water) Pressure
Welcome to the dangerous, cramped world of the saturation diver, and the extraordinary strangeness of working 500 feet under the sea.