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The Wrong Inequality We live in a polarizing society, so perhaps it’s inevitable that our experience of inequality should be polarized, too. In the first place, there is what you might call Blue...
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Who Quits Before Race Day? A month ago, Gary Scheiner felt ready to finish under four hours in the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday. Today, he couldn’t run a single mile. During the high-mileage...
View ArticleA Nursing Home Shrinks Until It Feels Like a Home
A Nursing Home Shrinks Until It Feels Like a Home Toni Davis spent much of her childhood roaming the corridors of a nursing home in West Orange, N.J., where her mother was the director. Even now she...
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A Last Bastion of Civility, the South, Sees Manners Decline ATLANTA — One August night, two men walked into a popular restaurant attached to this city’s fanciest shopping mall. They sat at the bar,...
View ArticleCompton finds itself in full financial meltdown
Compton finds itself in full financial meltdown The city is in such disarray that it amassed $369,000 in late fees because it could not pay its policing contract with the Sheriff’s Department. It has...
View ArticleSpectacular Time-Lapse Video of Historic Dam Removal
Spectacular Time-Lapse Video of Historic Dam Removal For 98 years, the 125-foot high Condit Dam in southeastern Washington State held back the White Salmon River, creating a serene lake, but choking...
View ArticleWhere an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke
Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke The cellphone vibrated softly, insistently, echoing off the whitewashed walls of the artist’s studio. It was a Sunday morning in early April, and Wang Bo —...
View ArticleReinventing online ads
Reinventing online ads British television producer Mark Burnett turned program financing on its head a decade ago when he brought brands like Doritos and Mountain Dew as sponsors into the expensive,...
View ArticleWhat we’re most excited about in ’11-12
What we’re most excited about in ’11-12 1. What’s No. 5 on your 2011-12 list of Things I’m Looking Forward To? Kevin Arnovitz, ESPN.com: I wonder where Dwight Howard will be playing on March 1 and...
View ArticleLindsay Lohan’s Path to Playboy
Lindsay Lohan’s Path to Playboy Lindsay Lohan uttered those famous last words in a 2005 interview with Access Hollywood. In those halcyon days, the teen actress was promoting the Disney family film...
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