December 2011
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Yearly Review →
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WatchNorth Korean Labor Camps
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What It Takes to Open a Bar in Baghdad →
Welcome to the Baghdad Country Club, founded in the middle of the war zone of 2006 Iraq, where even the beer runs were a matter of life and death
As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter,... →
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Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me? →
When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me - it still sometimes happens - and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife.
They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we...
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“If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than...”
– Montesquieu
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Best/Worst Scandals of 2011 →
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What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 →
Two years after the Airbus 330 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, Air France 447’s flight-data recorders finally turned up. The revelations from the pilot transcript paint a surprising picture of chaos in the cockpit, and confusion between the pilots that led to the crash.
The Anti-Social Network →
By helping other people look happy, Facebook is making us sad.
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