Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

Published: Aug 26, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,313 words)

“Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?”: America’s misguided culture of overwork

Germany’s workers have higher productivity, shorter hours and greater quality of life. How did we get it so wrong

Author: Alex Jung
Source: Salon
Published: Aug 25, 2010
Length: 6 minutes (1,734 words)

News reporting in Duluth: Adventures of an accidental journalist

Laurie Hertzel’s first job at the Duluth News-Tribune was newsroom clerk. Most of the newsroom folk were men back in those days, but the bright young women who were just starting to get hired were already making a difference.

Source: MinnPost
Published: Aug 26, 2010
Length: 6 minutes (1,566 words)

Finest Hours

The making of Winston Churchill

Source: New Yorker
Published: Aug 30, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,362 words)

Five-Year-Old Slugger

The video of his batting-cage exploits has turned him into an internet curiosity and a media star. How can a kid so small and so young handle 85-mph heat?

Published: Aug 30, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,191 words)

How Power Has Transformed Women’s Tennis

Published: Aug 25, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,692 words)

The Billionaire and the Book Lover

Are Barnes & Noble founder Len Riggio and his nemesis Ron Burkle the only people in America who still want to own a mega-bookstore?

Published: Aug 22, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,691 words)

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Don’t reserve your best business thinking for your career.

Published: Jul 1, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,073 words)

Covert Operations

The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.

Author: Jane Mayer
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Aug 30, 2010
Length: 39 minutes (9,962 words)

The Ghost

The deathly pallor, the skeletal stance, the twangy voice, the love of good whiskey and bad women — it’s eerie to look at Hank Williams III without seeing this apparition of his legendary grandfather.

Source: GQ
Published: Dec 1, 2000
Length: 33 minutes (8,327 words)