That sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap

The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. Here’s what the federal government can do about the jobs crisis

Source: Salon
Published: Oct 20, 2009
Length: 31 minutes (7,847 words)

Inside the App Economy

Beyond the goofy games is a world of useful programs that’s making fortunes and changing the rules of business

Source: Businessweek
Published: Oct 22, 2009
Length: 31 minutes (7,847 words)

Joe Paterno Top Of The World, Pa!

He’s 82. He has the career-wins record. Isn’t it time to quit? Bite your tongue. As long as he has an impact at Penn State, Joe Paterno is staying put.

Published: Oct 26, 2009
Length: 20 minutes (5,065 words)

Living on $500,000 a Year

What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times

Published: Oct 23, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,738 words)

Eating the Dinosaur

Published: Oct 23, 2009
Length: 25 minutes (6,262 words)

The Si Way

Published: Oct 20, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,738 words)

The auto bailout: How we did it

The man who led the effort gives an inside look at the bankruptcies that shook America.

Source: Fortune
Published: Oct 21, 2009
Length: 21 minutes (5,486 words)

Confessions of an Opium-Seeker

Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, the author goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Sep 1, 2000
Length: 11 minutes (2,778 words)

The Audacity of ‘Precious’

Although Lee Daniels will be 50 this year, he has the bouncy, mercurial energy of a child. The previous night, at the gala screening of his movie “Precious,” which he directed and helped produce, he greeted the audience by saying, “I’m a little homo, I’m a little Euro and I’m a little ghetto.” The crowd cheered.

Published: Oct 21, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,018 words)

An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All

The underlying argument has not changed: Vaccines harm America’s children, and doctors like Paul Offit are paid shills of the drug industry. To be clear, there is no credible evidence to indicate that any of this is true. None. Twelve epidemiological studies have found no data that links the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine to autism; six studies have found no trace of an association between thimerosal (a preservative containing ethylmercury that has largely been removed from vaccines since 20011) and autism, and three other studies have found no indication that thimerosal causes even subtle neurological problems.

Source: Wired
Published: Oct 19, 2009
Length: 28 minutes (7,151 words)