Articles Tagged with #stories
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Stories
A Few Bad Apples
Following the public outrage and scandal, after the hospitalizations and quarantines, the Unified Fruit Crop Corporation offers a helpful list of questions and answers to address your many concerns about the problem with its fruit.
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Stories
Give Me a Sign
Political conventions exist for the cameras, and the cameras like to see audiences with a sea of signs. But where do all those banners come from?
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Gallery
Jerusalem Journal
There’s no easy way to tour Israel on foot, especially when people are trying to steal your art supplies. Our staff illustrator returns to the land where his family’s been for more than 70 years.
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Gallery
Appetite
If you could choose, would you forgo the hassles of eating forever? The arguments in its favor are compelling, but finding an answer is difficult. Searching for a solution, Geoffrey Badner photographs a week’s worth of food.
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Stories
A Course Guide to Literary Readings
These days, literary readings aren’t as boring as they should be. But what for the budding author or poet, still in school, who doesn’t know how to smash a guitar or bake a cobbler onstage?
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Stories
A Love Affair With Maps
Maps represent our locations, they can serve as a reminder of where we’ve been, and they sometimes show us the best route to the mall. Our writer charts a personal history across the changing lines of his home state.
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Spoofs & Satire
Australia’s Mightiest Heroes
Wherever there is trouble, from marketing to marsupials, they will protect. Super-genius and superhero Dick Smith hatches a new era of costumes and secret identities.
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Stories
Donald Rumsfeld Is Wrong
Predicting the future is a touchy business, especially if you’re banking on the outcome. Our writer reports on a personal history of predictions gone right, wrong, and somewhere in between.
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Stories
Coming This November
The presidential race is heating up. And at this point, it’s anybody’s game. So, who will be ready to take the oath, and who will be sent home in disgrace? Here’s preview of what we can expect this fall.
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Stories
Great Oscar Gaffes
Every year we watch the nominations unfold, the awards change hands, and the speeches drag on. But we miss all the inappropriate jokes, drunk punches, and other such un-televisables. Here’s the moments Oscar wished he’d never seen.
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Stories
I Was a 10-Year-Old Political Consultant
Leading a political campaign can be a thankless job, as ex-Dean-campaign manager Joe Trippi well knows. But what if your candidate isn’t a Democrat from Vermont, but a woodland creature? Our writer recalls his electioneering days.
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Personalities
Bright Nights, Big Mountains
The Sundance Film Festival may have a hard time maintaining its indie credibility, but as a magnet for celebrities there is little doubt about its powers. After a few days of film in Park City,our writer looks back.