Friday, October 1

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In 1906, Enrico Caruso was arrested for molesting a young woman inside the Monkey House of Central Park Zoo, paving the way for the first celebrity trial of the 20th century.

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A profile of the perpetually disappointed Alec Baldwin.

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If the fittest survive, why are so many people still depressed? An evolutionary theory on the benefits of painful rumination.

Thursday, September 30

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She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2 1/2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.

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How the mind behind Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto plans to push gaming further.

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Ten years ago, Esquire did a piece about Harvard Law grads who had eschewed their degrees. One of them was the late comedian.

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The story of Charles Goodyear, who dedicated his life to inventing usable rubber yet has little to show for it, aside from his name on the side of a blimp.

Wednesday, September 29

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Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.

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Not only is the penny useless, it costs the U.S. Treasury $50 million per year. So why is it still around?

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In this profile of the band, William Burroughs is interested in two things: big-time rock shows and random conversational tangents.

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‘Your Black Muslim Bakery’ commanded vast influence in Oakland, offering jobs and self-empowerment to ex-cons , until this story revealed a history of incest-rapes and kidnappings. Another journalist investigating the story was later murdered.

Tuesday, September 28

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The world’s most renowned chef, Ferran Adrià, says that the only way he can push forward the art form of cooking is to close his own restaurant.