The Salesman

Experienced, emotional, marked by personal tragedy and political setback, Joe Biden is in many ways the antithesis of the president he serves.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 37 minutes (9,337 words)

It Was Delicious While It Lasted

Gastronomes have been trekking to the remote Spanish cove where Ferran Adria has changed culinary history. Now, to evolve his restaurant, El Bulli, the man they call the world’s greatest chef is closing it forever.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,336 words)

Ciudad Juarez: How We Got Here

As the violence in Mexico rages on, with murder totals recently surpassing 28,000 since the start of 2007, it’s easy for anyone watching or keeping up with the news to become desensitized.

Source: The Awl
Published: Sep 15, 2010
Length: 6 minutes (1,613 words)

Autism’s First Child

Children with autism will become adults with autism, some 500,000 of them in this decade alone. What then? Meet Donald Gray Triplett, 77, of Forest, Mississippi. He was the first person ever diagnosed with autism.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,165 words)

An Army of One

Equipped with little more than a sword he’d bought on a home-shopping network, a pair of night-vision goggles, and the blessing of a vengeful Christian God, 50-year-old ex-con Gary Faulkner traveled to the most volatile region of Pakistan to capture Osama bin Laden.

Source: GQ
Published: Sep 1, 2010
Length: 28 minutes (7,061 words)

Broken Windows

The police and neighborhood safety

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Mar 1, 1982
Length: 27 minutes (6,789 words)

The Face of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg opens up.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Sep 20, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,158 words)

America Is a Joke

The worst of times for politics and media has been the best of times for The Daily Show’s host‚ and unfortunately things are getting even funnier

Published: Sep 12, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,022 words)

The Tortured Life of Eric Show

Pitcher who gave up Pete Rose’s record hit lived, and died, with heavy burden

Author: Tom Friend
Source: ESPN
Published: Sep 11, 2010
Length: 35 minutes (8,993 words)

The Man Who Makes Your iPhone

Foxconn founder Terry Gou might be regarded as Henry Ford reincarnated if only a dozen of his workers hadn’t killed themselves this year. An exclusive look inside a postmodern industrial empire.

Source: Businessweek
Published: Sep 9, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,204 words)