“The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility.”
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Concealing a Catastrophe: ‘The Day the Music Burned’
“The vault fire was not, as UMG suggested, a minor mishap, a matter of a few tapes stuck in a musty warehouse. It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business.”
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Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid for $195 a Packet? Oh Yeah!
“Kool-Ade” debuted in 1927 and has remained popular for over 90 years.
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Sing a Song of Hope: ‘Everything will be all right’
“Like, wow. This is another family I have found.”
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Big Problems and Big Paychecks in West Texas Oil Country
As the current oil boom attests. West Texas’ oil deposits come with high social and environmental costs.
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‘What if people found out?’ On the White Male Suicide Epidemic
“I got home and went back to the fetal position for a week.”
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To Protect Children from Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church Must Eliminate the Clergy
One ex-priest shows how the clergy lies at the root of the Catholic Church’s problems.
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No Surgery Can Fix a Self-Defeating World View
Brick had gotten a new jaw, nose, and cheekbones from a surgeon in California, costing him around $30,000, and still he was furious at women and the world.
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The Great Cannabis Experiment: Ian Brown on Growing Your Own Weed
Weed? Turns out it’s tricky to grow your own.
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The Ways of a Wandering Spirit
For many of us, road trips are also trips through the self.