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The Gift
by Ian Parker + Follow
New Yorker | May 2011
Zell Kravinsky gave away millions. But somehow it wasn't enough.
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For the Love of Lemurs
by Richard Conniff + Follow
Smithsonian Magazine | April 2011
To her delight, social worker-turned-scientist Patricia Wright has found the mischievous Madagascar primates to be astonishingly complex.
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Cracking Open
by Patricia Brieschke + Follow
PMS | March 2011
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Sister Outsider Headbanger
by Kiedra Chaney + Follow
Bitch Magazine | March 2011
On Being a Black Feminist Metalhead
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Innocence Found
by Pamela Colloff + Follow
Texas Monthly | January 2011
Why did Anthony Graves spend eighteen years behind bars—twelve of them on death row—for a crime he did not commit?
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The End.
by Ben Ehrenreich + Follow
Los Angeles Magazine | November 2010
Death in L.A. can be an odd undertaking.
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The Wreck of the Lady Mary
by Amy Ellis Nutt + Follow
The Star-Ledger | November 2010
Mystery shrouds fatal scallop boat sinking
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The Courage of Jill Costello
by Chris Ballard + Follow
Sports Illustrated | November 2010
After a promising junior season as a coxswain at Cal, she learned she was in the late stages of cancer. The next year was her best.
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Innocence Lost
by Pamela Colloff + Follow
Texas Monthly | October 2010
Since August 23, 1992, Anthony Graves has been behind bars for the gruesome murder of a family in Somerville. There was no clear motive, no physical evidence connecting him to the crime, and the only witness against him recanted, declaring again and again before his death, in 2000, that Graves didn’t do it. If he didn’t, the truth will come out. Won’t it?
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The Mark of a Masterpiece
by David Grann + Follow
New Yorker | July 2010
A painting done by famous artist is often worth millions of dollars. An imitation is basically worthless. Art history experts used their trained eye to differentiate between the two – until recently, when Peter Paul Biro began using fingerprints on canvases to authenticate works. Is his method an improvement?