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Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website (A very very very long history of Suck.com)
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"How to throw a no-hitter on acid, and other lessons from the career of baseball legend Dock Ellis"
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The Web is San Francisco circa 2001
"Visiting San Francisco for the first time in 2001, it all snapped into place. Here was a city cross-hatched by freeways that each felt just a little too dangerous to walk under."
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How Mark Felt Became 'Deep Throat'
As a Friendship -- and the Watergate Story -- Developed, Source's Motives Remained a Mystery to Woodward
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As head boy at a legendary choir school, Lawrence Lessig was repeatedly molested . . . part of a horrific pattern of child abuse there. Now, as one of America’s most famous lawyers, he’s put his own past on trial to make sure such things never happen
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Robert McNamara is worried . . . Today, he believes the United States must no longer rely on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy tool. To do so is immoral, illegal, and dreadfully dangerous.
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Can any self-respecting thirtysomething music fan turn their back on a record collection dominated by hip bands such as Muse and Interpol and revert to their first love - the Moody Blues, ELO, Queen, Toto and, yes, even Phil Collins?
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They're known as firework careers: bands whose popularity rockets, flares - and dies all too quickly. Dorian Lynskey reports on a worrying trend and looks at what a new band can expect
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All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior. Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some surprising new answers -- and ways to do better.
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