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Tabloid newspapers were caught hacking into the voicemails of Prince William and Prince Harry. One reporter was arrested - but an investigation shows the eavesdropping was far more elaborate and widespread.

If you walk into New York’s best restaurants without a reservation, what does it take to get a table?

The author enrolls in three cults - ADIDAM, the Moonies, and Aleph (formerly Aum, who carried out the Tokyo metro Sarin attacks) - via their New York branches.

The night the doctor behind the Scarsdale Diet was shot by his mistress, the impeccable headmistress of the elite all-girls boarding school Madeira.

The surreal world of Sarah Palin and her road show.

The cozy relationship between “the internet newspaper” and bogus medicine.

The billionaire Koch brothers have declared war on Obama.

A young reporter heads to Colombia to report on the conflict between FARC and the paramilitaries. He meets a girl on the bus. After they begin a relationship, she reveals that that she is part of a death squad.

The poet and his love affair with Italian motorbikes (and also lots of women.)

A 13 year old gets a webcam and starts doing dirty shows online, ending up running a smut business in Mexico with his deadbeat father.

The unsolved killing of Russia’s most notorious spammer.

A profile of Francis Collins, a fervent Christian, former head of the Human Genome Project and Obama’s appointee to head N.I.H., now at the center of the stem cell research debate.

A blow by blow account of the seizure of a French cruise ship by Somali pirates.

The stories of the eleven men who died on the Deepwater Horizon.

Across the country, little-known schools are accepting almost everyone who applies, cashing a lot of checks, and offering so little support that only the most determined students leave with a degree.

Thirty years ago, few people had ever heard of ADD. ‘Early onset depression’ might become a common diagnosis long before 2040.

A profile of Kanye West written in the style of an all-access magazine piece - using only quotes and statements that Kanye West has made on Twitter and other web outlets.

The story of a deadly collision on the D.C. Metro, told from surviving passengers’ point of view.

What happens to a subway operator after someone commits suicide by jumping in front of his train?

The man for whom the term “jet-setter” was coined left a bitterly fractured estate.

A prominent sportswriter spent his life wanting to be a woman and, to great public attention, made the gender switch. But his change brought regret, and eventual suicide.

Fifty-four days after his group’s Everest climb turned tragic, Krakauer first told the story of what had gone wrong.

The original story of Christopher McCandless’ fateful trip into the Alaskan wilderness.

A DHL tycoon’s small plane disappeared near the Phillipines amidst rumors of children fathered with teenage Asian villagers. Every scrap of his DNA went missing, but that didn’t stop a forensic mathematician.

Christian Audigier is the man behind Von Dutch and Ed Hardy. The massive succes of his garish and expensive creations may say more about the power of celebrity than about fashion.