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Feature
What He Knew
November 29, 2011 06:00 AMAnthony Shadid is the most honored foreign correspondent of his generation: two Pulitzer Prizes, a George Polk Award, an Overseas Press Club award, book awards—the list is long. He grew up wanting to be a foreign correspondent.... Continue reading
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Reports
Mark Cuban’s Business Model
February 23, 2011 04:29 PMMark Cuban is well known as the brash, combative owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, the guy who looks like a big kid and sometimes acts like one. His outbursts can obscure his most notable attribute—he is... Continue reading
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Cover Story
Dumb Like a Fox
March 9, 2010 07:00 AMLast December 10 was a big news day. U.S. Senate negotiators announced they had agreed to a compromise on health care reform, final preparations were being made for a global conference on climate change, President Obama accepted the Nobel... Continue reading
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Feature
A Thousand Cuts
January 21, 2010 08:00 AMSpencer Ackerman, who reports on national security issues for The Washington Independent and blogs about the same—and does both at a consistently high level of quality, which is not a simple task—last year posted an item on... Continue reading
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The Observatory
Criticism of Gladwell Reaches Tipping Point
November 17, 2009 12:03 PMCriticism of Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling New Yorker writer, seems to be reaching – yes! – a tipping point. The critiques have come from a variety of angles – literary critics lambast his glibness; The Daily Beast doesn’t... Continue reading
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The Observatory
Reservations about Resveratrol
November 5, 2009 04:03 PMThere is in the science press a kind of gene-of-the-month club for disease cures in which scientists discover that promoting or quieting a particular gene cures this condition or that. One prominent example in recent years has been the claim... Continue reading
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