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Best Articles

Best Article Tech

The Enemy Within

The Conficker ‘worm’ has replicated itself across tens of millions of computers. Only a few hundred people have the knowledge to recreate how, and no one (except its anonymous maker) fully understands why.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic May 2010 35min Permalink

Best Article

That Which Does Not Kill Me...

Inside the twisted, half-conscious world of Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who might be the world’s best ultra-endurance athlete.

Daniel Coyle New York Times Feb 2006 Permalink

Best Article History

Atomic John

The truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.

David Samuels New Yorker Dec 2008 40min Permalink

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60 Hours of Terror

The defining, minute-by-minute account of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai.

Jason Motlagh The Virginia Quarterly Review Nov 2009 15min Permalink

Best Article Sports

The Dirtiest Player

In the wake of a brazen but mysterious Philadelphia gunfight, Marvin Harrison, the man who holds the NFL record for receptions in a season, may find himself with a permanent record of a different sort.

Jason Fagone GQ Feb 2010 25min Permalink

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