Good Stuff I Read

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originally on edmunds.com (now only on pdf)

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The Photo That Changed the Face of AIDS

LIFE.com shares the story behind one of the most harrowing and controversial photographs to emerge from the global pandemic

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Meet the Marquis de Sade of the puzzle world.

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Welcome to the nerve-wracking reality of being Finland.

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The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá

After a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins. This is the story of how they found one another — and of what happened next.

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The Story Behind Bob Beamon's Miracle Jump And The Only Photo That Mattered

The man who took one of the most famous photos in Olympic history wasn’t a professional photographer. Tony Duffy was on vacation at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, and with nothing more than an amateur’s bravado, he casually wandered into the Athletes’ Village—which should have been off limits to him—and first heard the name of the man who’d make his career.

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For 56 years, the Maine Lobster Festival has been drawing crowds with the promise of sun, fun, and fine food. One visitor would argue that the celebration involves a whole lot more.

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See how Eadweard Muybridge stopped time — Timeline

Behind the scenes of the landmark 1878 “The Horse in Motion” images

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The Tennis Racket

Betting worth billions. Elite players. Violent threats. Covert messages with Sicilian gamblers. And suspicious matches at Wimbledon. Leaked files expose match-fixing evidence that tennis authoritie...

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What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter.

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The Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525

One year after a young pilot crashed a German airliner into the remote French Alps—a suicide and mass homicide that transfixed and horrified the world—Joshua Hammer investigates what really happened that day

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Adam Neumann's $16 Billion Neo-Utopian Play To Turn WeWork Into WeWorld

Can the hipster mecca for getting $! done live up to its staggering valuation, shush haters, & bend society to the WeWork worldview?

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The Rest Is Advertising

© Eric Hanson Recently, I landed the tech-journalism equivalent of a Thomas Pynchon interview: I got someone from Twitter to answer my call. Notorious for keeping its communications department locked up tight, Twitter is not …

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Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions.

The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions. 

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The Myth of Ethical Shopper

Consumer boycotts don't stop sweatshops any more. This might.

We're still trying to eliminate sweatshops and child labor by buying right. But that's not how the world works in 2015. 

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In 1982, they battled stride for stride for more than two hours in the most thrilling Boston marathon ever run. Then the drama really began.

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A League of His Own

How Sepp Blatter controls soccer

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