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A trip to Scotland and an investigation of enduring belief.
“I remember reading about the deathbed confession, and how strangely sad it made me, even though I had not, at that point, believed in the monster for years. How much sadder, I wondered, would it make those who still believed in the existence of a monster in Loch Ness?”
Earlier this month, while China's leaders were staging a grandiose celebration of their revolution's 40th birthday, thousands of somber Hong Kong residents gathered for a dreary commemoration of their own. Far from the fireworks display in Beijing, Hong Kongers huddled in a rainstorm near the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, singing patriotic songs and listening to mournful poems dedicated to those who died in Tiananmen Square.
Joshua Williams was 18 when he was arrested in 2014 for stealing a bag of chips and lighting a QuikTrip trash can on fire in the aftermath of a protest sparked by the death of Antonio Martin near Ferguson, MO. He is still in prison.
Jackie Thomas was $29,134 in debt and in trouble with state regulators. She hadn’t slept in days. If a judge ruled against her, she’d fail the mothers who could only keep their jobs thanks to the 24-hour child care she offered.
Fourteen other tornadoes hit Georgia on April 27 and 28. This was not the record — that would be twenty, during Tropical Storm Alberto in 1994. But it was one of the worst twenty-four-hour periods in the history of the state. Tornadoes hit Trenton, Cherokee Valley, south of LaGrange, and Covington; killed seven people in a neighborhood in Catoosa County, swept through Ringgold, and killed two more — a disabled man and his caregiver — in a double-wide trailer on the far end of Spalding County. Those tornadoes got all the attention. The Vaughn tornado didn’t even warrant an article in a major newspaper. No one talked about Vaughn. The only way for a person to really find out about it was to drive past.
Steve Jobs, age 29.
"It’s often the same with any new, revolutionary thing. People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It’s a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at things, a specific way of questioning things. It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they’re rare."
In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.
A profile of the “smart person’s” astrologer, and the people who believe in horopscopes.
The author on his 25 years in solitary confinement.
A participant in a deadly shooting spree decides to snitch on his friends.
A profile of Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in American history.
Investigating the burning of ancient books by rebels in Timbuktu.
Tourism at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.
On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.
Why six people admitted roles in two murders they most likely didn’t commit.
They lose millions in a Florida real estate scam.
A couple’s only son is killed in Iraq.
On the rise in gay teens who are cast out by their families.
An argument for ordering in, among other things.
The impossible task of touring a tractor factory in post-Soviet Belarus.
An American enrolls in a Beijing ping-pong school. A series of humiliations ensue.
Debates surrounding physician-assisted dying in the U.S.
Exploring remote atolls in the South Pacific.
How a small-town comptroller became the biggest municipal embezzler in U.S. history.
A coffee maven—and Frappuccino inventor—attempts a comeback in the cafe business.
