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The Suspects Wore Louboutins
Eighteen-year-old Alexis Neiers, days after her arraignment for being an alleged member of the Bling Ring. Photograph by Susanna Howe. View complete credits. Alexis Neiers told cops that she and Nick Prugo had been drinking at Beso, a trendy bar-restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard, when Prugo got a call from Rachel Lee telling him to come and meet her. It was July 13, 2009. Neiers said she knew that Prugo and Lee—both 19 and former classmates at Indian Hills, an alternative high school in Agoura Hills, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles—had been…
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Facebook, One Year Later: What Really Happened in…
Uma Swaminathan tuned the television set in the living room of her ranch style home in the suburbs of East Brunswick, N.J. to CNBC. It was 9:00 a.m. on May 18, 2012, a day the retired schoolteacher…
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Why Suicide Has Become and Epidemic--and What We…
0Opinions0Comment0ShareNext Story WHEN THOMAS Joiner was 25 years old, his father—whose name was also Thomas Joiner and who could do anything—disappeared from the family’s home.…
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
I: The Witness “I am a whistle-blower,” he says. “I am notorious. It is a kind of infamy doing what I am doing, isn’t that what they say?” It was never Jeffrey Wigand’s ambition to become a central…
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When Hollywood Wants Good, Clean Fun, It Goes to…
Christina Skyles (purple hair), Allen Ostergar (center, to right of tree) and other students from the B.Y.U. animation program. More Photos »
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Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia
In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded…
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iOS-only OnTrees hopes to be the Mint.com of the…
I've been attending a lot of meetings with various London-based startups in the last few months to learn their stories on what it takes to launch a successful new product. I'm particularly interested…
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Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking
Daniel Dennett: 'Often the word "surely" is as good as a blinking light locating a weak point in the argument.' Photograph: Peter Yang/August 1 USE YOUR MISTAKESWe have all heard the forlorn refrain:…
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The Mag Archives: Rick Lopez's real life
This story appeared in ESPN The Magazine's Jan. 31, 2005, issue. Subscribe today!HE CALLED HIMSELF the god of basketball, and they believed. He shouted and stomped on the sideline, then smiled when…
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Searching for Dwight Howard
The uncertain destiny of the self-proclaimed Superman can be broken down into 10 simple realitiesYou know where this is headed. Unless Patrick Beverley comes flying out of the stands to take out…
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Freeway Rick Is Dreaming
L.A.’s most famous dopeman was doing life. I was writing his obituary. It was a bright January morning in 1998, early into Ricky Ross’s sentence, and I had driven up the California…
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A Closer Walk With Thee
Just past noon on a Saturday in early March, the first warm weekend of the year, the only sound on South Kent Street was a screen door slapping behind two teenage girls as they crossed a short lawn.…
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Here Comes the White-Power Safety Patrol
Members of the White Student Union, from left to right (they agreed to participate on condition we only used their first names): Sean, Ken, Paddy, Matthew Heimbach, Addie, and Shayne. Photos by…
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The Post-College Survival Guide
You took the walk with your cap and gown. You have that diploma in your hand. You're ready to tackle the world. But where the heck do you start? What are you forgetting to do? Once you're out of…
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Survivors
Years ago, along the cacophonous roads leading from Ramses Train Station in Cairo, I came across a small girl with a bright red headscarf weaving her way in and out of the slow-moving traffic, her…
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دوربین گلکسی اس 4، برتر از آیفون 5 و سایر تلفن…
بخش ها جستجو ورود صفحه اصلی نازک نارنجی کتاب نارنجی کلک های نارنجی دوربین های دیجیتال موبایل تبلت - کتابخوان نرم افزارها کامپیوتر و لپ تاپ سخت افزار نمایشگر…
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How my program passed the Turing Test
Mark Humphrys - Research - The Turing Test - How my program passed the Turing Test How my program passed the Turing Test by Mark Humphrys. When I was an undergraduate in 1989 I hooked up an Artificial Intelligence…