Wednesday, May 8

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On a cruise with Syvlia Browne, the controversial psychic famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are.

Tuesday, May 7

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Adventures in the cosmetics department of a Neiman Marcus in Dallas.

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A financier and his wife build a mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a mystery: Did John Felix Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their crumbling dream?

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Horst von Wächter confronts - and rationalizes - a difficult family legacy.

Monday, May 6

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The writer, entering her thirties single and adrift, heads to San Francisco to spend time with Kink.com’s Princess Donna Dolore and attend a gangbang “where all the men were dressed as panda bears.”

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Inside the White House debate over Syria.

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In 2011, just before Christmas, a tiny Spanish town won 120 million Euros in the lottery. A trip to the new Sodeto.

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A profile of the almost-president.

Sunday, May 5

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How companies and large temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as “raiteros,” who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage.

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A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.

Saturday, May 4

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“When a man steps onto the road, his journey begins. When a woman steps onto that same road, hers ends.”