Search Results for: The Nation

Dream of a Common Language. Sueño de un Idioma Común.

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The graduates of a radical bilingual education program at Alicia R. Chacón International, in El Paso, would have no trouble reading either of these headlines. What can they teach the rest of us about the future of Texas?

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,525 words)

The Case for Doing Nothing

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The only plausible argument for bailing out banks crumbles on close examination.

Source: Reason
Published: Aug 28, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,163 words)

Cholly, They’ll Never Call You A Hayseed In This Town Again

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Bringing a World Series trophy to a title-starved city can do that for a guy, but Charlie Manuel—national hero in Japan, hitting savant, friend to the Amish, Ted Williams and pretty much everyone in between—was a worldly man long before you ever knew.

Published: Jun 22, 2009
Length: 21 minutes (5,369 words)

Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea’s Veil

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With Sleuthing and Satellite Images, Mr. Melvin Fills the Blanks on a Secretive Nation’s Map

Published: May 22, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,170 words)

Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability

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Why does Google even need a chief economist? The simplest reason is that the company is an economy unto itself. The ad auction, marinated in that special sauce, is a seething laboratory of fiduciary forensics, with customers ranging from giant multinationals to dorm-room entrepreneurs, all billed by the world’s largest micropayment system.

Source: Wired
Published: May 22, 2009
Length: 15 minutes (3,878 words)

We Report, We Decide

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Can the Chinese government build an international media behemoth — and does anyone care?

Source: Foreign Policy
Published: May 15, 2009
Length: 25 minutes (6,353 words)

Was Madoff ‘Victim’ and Best Friend an Accomplice?

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New evidence suggests Bernie had powerful accomplices in his scheme—philanthropist Norman Levy and a second accountant. Lucinda Franks reports on the international investigation.

Source: Daily Beast
Published: Apr 23, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,139 words)

Tropical Depression in Cuba

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August in Havana is a mounting wave of heat—so consuming, the sun so piercing, it can warp your sense of reason. Tempt you to surrender. Make you flirt with insanity. The pained faces around you are covered in grimy sweat, a haze of resignation in the eyes. Here or there a woman fans herself, perhaps with some ladylike, store-bought thing, but more often with a stray scrap of cardboard. Inside, heat radiates from every surface, the temperature rising as the torridity soaks deeper into the concrete walls. Outside is worse. Few dare venture into the scorching light.

Source: VQR
Published: Apr 11, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,267 words)

Interview with David Foster Wallace

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“My own plan for the coming fourteen months is to knock on doors and stuff envelopes. Maybe even to wear a button. To try to accrete with others into a demographically significant mass. To try extra hard to exercise patience, politeness, and imagination on those with whom I disagree. Also to floss more.”

Source: The Believer
Published: Nov 11, 2003
Length: 25 minutes (6,308 words)

Home

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In February 2003, after the explosion of the shuttle two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home. And things got worse from there.

Source: Esquire
Published: Jul 1, 2004
Length: 26 minutes (6,707 words)