Disconcerting New Answers In Models Suicide
The investigation of 20-year-old Russian model’s fall from a Manhattan rooftop uncovers a string of mysteries and clues embedded within the insular world of international models and those who scout them.
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The investigation of 20-year-old Russian model’s fall from a Manhattan rooftop uncovers a string of mysteries and clues embedded within the insular world of international models and those who scout them.
Peter Pomerantsev Newsweek May 2011 10min Permalink
On the motivations and techniques of a prolific book thief who “built a vast collection of rare works, most of which he will never read and no one will ever see.”
Allison Hoover Bartlett San Francisco Magazine Feb 2006 20min Permalink
In anonymous warehouses in Detroit, Goldman Sachs has hoarded a quarter of the world’s supply of aluminum, placing them firmly in control of trading on the London Metal Exchange.
Clare Baldwin, Melanie Burton, Pratima Desai, Susan Thomas Reuters Jul 2011 10min Permalink
A profile of the Hell’s Angels following “front-page reports of a heinous gang rape in the moonlit sand dunes near the town of Seaside on the Monterey Peninsula.”
Hunter S. Thompson The Nation May 1965 15min Permalink
Why had the U.S. once again targeted Gaddafi? Of all the evils and perils in the world, there is none that galls Reagan more than terrorism. Of all the anti-American thugs who hang out in the back alleys of the Third World, there is none Reagan despises more than Gaddafi.
The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who was convicted of murdering Linda Jo Edwards in 1977 and sent to death row. After three trials, two overturned convictions and a plea deal, Cook is out of prison but still has the crime on his record. He maintains his innocence.
Mark Donald Dallas Observer Jul 1999 1h Permalink
A interview with David Mitchell, author of the recent The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas, on stretching a fictional universe across multiple novels and centuries of real history.
Wyatt Mason New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
The shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later culture of the 101st Airborne Division, an execution of captured Iraqi prisoners, and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Aug 2009 1h Permalink
A trip to interview former South Vietnamese premiere Ky on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam ends with government surveillance, partying, and confusion.
The writer (Aaron Sorkin), director (David Fincher), and actors (Jesse Eisenberg & Justin Timberlake) of The Social Network on dramatizing the real story of a 20 year old into “the Citizen Kane of John Hughes movies.”
Mark Harris New York Sep 2010 25min Permalink
The director of Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours on his aversion to America, the advantages of small budgets, and the challenges of directing the opening ceremony for the London Olympics.
Danny Boyle, Tim Adams The Guardian Dec 2010 Permalink
How Zion, Ill., a fundamentalist Christian settlement with a population of 6,250, created one of the most popular stations in the country during the early days of radio.
Cliff Doerksen Chicago Reader May 2002 Permalink
A profile of the late Jack LaLanne, “the greatest gym teacher of all time,” who was as responsible as anyone for America’s fitness craze in the latter half of the 20th century.
Donald Katz Outside Nov 1995 20min Permalink
On the pair of entrepreneurs behind a Wal-Mart of weed in Oakland. The duo is talking IPO. “Everybody I was meeting was a little bit older, more a part of the hippie generation,” says one. “I was like, ‘I bet there’s so much room for innovation and new ideas.’”
Josh Harkinson Mother Jones Jan 2011 Permalink
On the fall of Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged creator of The Silk Road, a hidden black market website where users could buy and sell drugs, guns and, according to the FBI, the services of a hit man.
Nate Anderson, Cyrus Farivar Ars Technica Oct 2013 15min Permalink
Jay Miscovich spent his life wanting to hunt for treasure. In 2010, after just a few months of trying, he found half a billion dollars worth of emeralds at the bottom of the Atlantic. A few years later he killed himself.
Robert P. Baird Harper's Feb 2016 1h Permalink
Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?
Ryan Gabrielson, Topher Sanders ProPublica Jul 2016 Permalink
“As a young reporter in Eastern Europe in 2001, I expected to witness the ‘end of history’ and the flowering of democracy. That was just one of the mistakes I made.”
On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle, and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of the murders, their aftermath, and the handful of people who kept faith amid the unthinkable.
Thomas French The St. Petersburg Times Oct 1997 3h30min Permalink
A little over 30 years ago, a Northern Neck fisherman went to prison for the brutal slaying of a homecoming queen and mother of two. Now, a reexamination of the case by a hard-charging UVA lawyer has turned up troubling questions.
Marisa M. Kashino Washingtonian Jul 2019 50min Permalink
In the 1980s some of the world’s most powerful institutions were taken in by stories, begun in Victoria B.C., of a global Satanic underground abducting and abusing thousands of children.
Jen Gerson The Capital Aug 2020 Permalink
Over the course of a few hours on April 20, a guy called Cuddles and eight of his pals from the freewheeling world of London’s commodities markets rode oil’s crash to a $660 million profit.
Liam Vaughan, Kit Chellel, Benjamin Bain Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Following Muammar Qaddafi’s death in 2011, Libya had hundreds of billions of dollars. This is the story of how it was erased.
David Samuels Businessweek Aug 2014 25min Permalink
A profile of law professor Dan Kahan, “one of the best-known unknown academics in the country,” who wants to close the communication gap between scientists and the public.
Paul Voosen The Chronicle of Higher Education Nov 2014 20min Permalink
A trip to Disney, the origins of Gatorade, the carny capital of America and how Miami ends — ten of our favorite articles about Florida.
The author visits Walt Disney World with his niece and wife.
Forty years later, John Jeremiah Sullivan visited Disney with his kid and weed.
Calvin Trillin New Yorker Jan 1971 10min
On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of the murders, their aftermath, and the handful of people who kept faith amid the unthinkable.
Thomas French St. Petersburg Times Oct 1997 3h35min
A profile of Robert Cade, a University of Florida professor and inventor of Gatorade.
Gilbert Rogin Sports Illustrated Jul 1968 25min
God has fled, avenging angels hide out in the Everglades, and more “secret stories” passed down by homeless kids in Miami shelters.
Lynda Edwards Miami New Times Jun 1997 20min
A local boy brings a touch of class to the city on the Bay.
Sean Manning Deadspin Aug 2012 25min
On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.
Ben Montgomery Tampa Bay Times Oct 2011 25min
Welcome to Gibsonton, Fla., the carny capital of the nation.
David Kushner Rolling Stone Sep 2003 20min
Life as a pageant queen in Plant City, Florida.
Anne Hull The New Yorker Aug 2008 20min
They lose millions in a Florida real estate scam.
Jen Banbury Businessweek Jun 2014 15min
How the city will drown.
Jeff Goddell Rolling Stone Jun 2013 30min
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