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The Basketball Jones discuss Dwyane Wade, Ray Allen and the Olympics pay-for-play brouhaha, the source of the Lamar Odom-Mark Cuban rift and the Nets' "top secret" plans to re-sign D-Will.
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It’s now precisely 1330h on Tuesday, 8 February 2000, on Bullshit 1, proceeding southeast on I-26 back toward Charleston SC.
What’s it like to be too handsome?
The Long Good Read | Articles hand picked twice daily from the Guardian
The Mail’s editor, Paul Dacre, considers it a compliment when critics accuse the paper of moralizing. “The family is the greatest institution on God’s green earth,” he told me recently, sitting on a dotted-swiss sofa in his London office, which is swagged in the camels and burgundys, the brasses and woods, that one would expect of a man who, as a student at the University of Leeds, chanted “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh” but now says, “For the life of me, I’m not quite sure why.” According to one editor, Dacre is enamored with New Zealand: “He thinks it’s like Britain from the nineteen-fifties.”
The Essayist
Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson - Ever wondered how the internet gets where it’s going? The author travels around the globe following the construction of a major fibre-optic cable. How to Get a Nuclear Bomb by William Langewiesche - A reporter visits some of the world’s remotest locations to find what it would take to put together a nuke.
The Electric Typewriter
Writer-director Lena Dunham is following her breakthrough, 2010's Tiny Furniture , with a new HBO series produced with Judd Apatow. Inside the making of the series: "When a TV critic reports on a new show, it’s okay to say the series is promising, even the next big thing, but ideally, one shouldn’t go native.
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What Vicki could never have known was that her surgery would turn her into an accidental superstar of neuroscience.
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At 2:11 p.m., as two ambulances waited with motors running, 10 horses burst from the starting gate at Ruidoso Downs Race Track 6,900 feet up in New Mexico’s Sacramento Mountains. Nineteen seconds later, under a brilliant blue sky, a national champion jockey named Jacky Martin lay sprawled in the furrowed dirt just past the finish line, paralyzed, his neck broken in three places. On the ground next to him, his frightened horse, leg broken and chest heaving, was minutes away from being euthanized on the track.
The Browser | the world in a window
Three decades of growing inequality and collapsing public morality have pitched America into crisis, imperilling its democracy.