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Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? Part 10: By the Time We Got to Woodstock '99

Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? Part 10: By the Time We Got to Woodstock ’99

From 2004: In Mubarak’s Egypt, Democracy Is an Idea Whose Time Has Not Yet Come

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“Mubarak fears that if he widens the margins of democracy things will happen,” Essam al-Eryam, one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s most prominent middle-aged leaders, told me at the Brotherhood’s headquarters. “There will be democracy here, sooner or later. It requires patience, and we are more patient because we are, as an organization, seventy-six years old. You have already seen some countries—Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iran—describe themselves as Islamic regimes. There’s a diversity of models, even among the Sunni and the Shia. Egypt can present a model that is more just and tolerant.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 12, 2004
Length: 31 minutes (7,786 words)

Ballad for a Plain Man: Singer Jeff Finlin Thought He'd Hit the Big-Time—Until He Didn't

Ballad for a Plain Man: Singer Jeff Finlin Thought He’d Hit the Big-Time—Until He Didn’t

Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.

Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.

Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.

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Fast-forward to now: Boba Fett’s helmet emblazoned on sleeveless T-shirts worn by gym douches hefting dumbbells. The Glee kids performing the songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And Toad the Wet Sprocket, a band that took its name from a Monty Python riff, joining the permanent soundtrack of a night out at Bennigan’s. Our below-the-topsoil passions have been rudely dug up and displayed in the noonday sun. The Lord of the Rings used to be ours and only ours simply because of the sheer goddamn thickness of the books. Twenty years later, the entire cast and crew would be trooping onstage at the Oscars to collect their statuettes, and replicas of the One Ring would be sold as bling.

Source: Wired
Published: Dec 27, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,783 words)

Paleo Fitness: The Workout that Time Forgot

Paleo Fitness: The Workout that Time Forgot

Paleo Fitness: The Workout that Time Forgot

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“We live like zoo animals!” It’s an idea Erwan Le Corre borrowed from the British zoologist Desmond Morris, author of the 1967 classic “The Naked Ape,” and it’s central to his worldview: that we are essentially wild creatures ill-suited to desk jobs and processed foods. “We have become divorced from nature, trapped in colorless boxes,” Le Corre says. “We have lost our adaptability, and it’s threatening our health and longevity.”

Author: Nick Heil
Source: Outside
Published: Dec 17, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,600 words)

‘Quiet Time’

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Kevin Rouse’s story reveals the difficulties of dealing with a population of men with adult sexual urges and often childlike thinking. The staff of the Human Development Center enacted a bold and unorthodox policy permitting sex between residents, but experts who deal with the developmentally disabled question whether the policy did more harm than good, creating a sexually charged atmosphere that may have encouraged sexual assaults.

Source: Tampa Bay Times
Published: Dec 19, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,025 words)

Time Person of the Year 2010: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

Time Person of the Year 2010: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

Time Person of the Year 2010: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

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Zuckerberg has often — possibly always — been described as remote and socially awkward, but that’s not quite right. True: holding a conversation with him can be challenging. He approaches conversation as a way of exchanging data as rapidly and efficiently as possible, rather than as a recreational activity undertaken for its own sake. He is formidably quick and talks rapidly and precisely, and if he has no data to transmit, he abruptly falls silent. (“I usually don’t like things that are too much about me” was how he began our first interview.) He cannot be relied on to throw the ball back or give you encouraging facial cues. His default expression is a direct and slightly wide-eyed stare that makes you wonder if you’ve got a spider on your forehead.

Source: Time
Published: Dec 15, 2010
Length: 33 minutes (8,471 words)