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Why Suicide Has Become and Epidemic--and What We Can Do to Help
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. At the time, Joiner was a graduate student at the University of Texas, studying clinical psychology. His focus was depression, and it was obvious to him that his father was depressed. Six weeks earlier, on a family trip to the Georgia coast, the gregarious 56-year-old—the kind of guy who was forever talking and laughing and bending people his…
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The Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a…
The US government’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a…
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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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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 Curse of Reading and Forgetting
Recently, a colleague mentioned that she had been rereading Richard Hughes’s “A High Wind in Jamaica,” which was first published in 1929 and is about a group of creepy little…
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When (and If) You Should Ever Work For Free
I lose count of my “jobs” these days: my literary writing (that theoretically pays, or had better one day or else), a nonprofit board on which I serve as president, and the magazine I…
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The Girl Who Turned to Bone
When Jeannie Peeper was born in 1958, there was only one thing amiss: her big toes were short and crooked. Doctors fitted her with toe braces and sent her home. Two months later, a bulbous swelling…
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Why Suicide Has Become an 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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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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Jony Ive's new look for iOS 7: black, white, and…
With the grand unveiling of Apple’s next operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch approaching, sources have provided detailed descriptions of what users and developers alike could expect from the software’s fresh…
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The Best Ways to Avoid Scars
Nobody likes getting cut up and dealing with a potential scar. While you'll find countless supposed remedies out there to avoid scars, The Wall Street Journal takes a look at which of these…
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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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Stop Windows from Restarting Your Computer After…
Sometimes, Windows downloads important updates and decides it's going to restart your computer whether you like it or not. Here's how to disable that behavior. This has been part of Windows for a…
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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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Not Just Another Notes App: Why You Should Use…
When Google Keep launched, it never got the fanfare it deserved. The people that did review it compared it to all the wrong apps, like Evernote or Microsoft OneNote. That's a shame, because a…