The Best Stories You've nEver Read #87
Riding the subway at 9 -- The Week
Lenore Skenazy caused a stir when she let her 9-year-old ride New York City’s subway by himself. In this book excerpt published in The Week, she explains why.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #86
Ever since crash, flying is different -- St. Petersburg Times
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Lane DeGregory takes you into the world of one of the survivors of Flight 1549 (the Sulley Sullenberger landing in the Hudson). For Casey Jones every flight is a white knuckler.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #85
Elks lock horns -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Christine Byers's story in the P-D raises questions of brotherhood, loyalty and the rule of law.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #84
Why I fired my broker - The Atlantic
Jeffrey Goldberg provides a humorous and illuminating account of what went wrong with the financial services industry as far as he and his 401-K are concerned. We provide the link here, but Jeffrey says he wishes you'd buy the magazine. I'm a subscriber.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #83
Waiting for death, alone and unafraid - Los Angeles Times
Edwin Shneidman studied and wrote about death -- and, in particular, suicide --for most of his life. Now at age 90, he is ready to die. "There is no heaven, no hell Happiness lies in the here and now and the satisfaction of living a good life without religion or my to guide you," is the way reporter Thomas Curwen summarizes Shneidman's beliefs as he approahces his last days on earth. "He takes nothing away from others' beliefs," Curwen writes. "He just prefers Moby Dick to the Bible." A moving and somewhat provocative audio slide show accompanies the story.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #82
Having a bat mitzvah in their 90s - New York Times
It's never too late to become a bat mitzvah, even if you're 94 as is Ann Simon of Beachwood, Ohio. And she's not the oldest one. Nine women were planning to take part in the bat mitzvah ceremony in the synagogue of the Menorah Park senior residence in this Cleveland suburb.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #81
Subway hero shuns the spotlight -- New York Times
Chad Lindsey rescued a man from the subway tracks at New York's Penn Station. Even more remarkably, he didn't try to capitalize on his moment in the limelight.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #80
Job search is unemployed executive's full-time quest -- Kansas City Star
Star reporter Eric Adler followed Darren Wright for a month as he tried to find a job in an ailing Kansas City job market.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #79
A real wrestler -- New York Times
After Mickey Rourke portrayed a wrestler in the hit movie, New York Times reporter Michael Winerip went looking for a real one with surprising results.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #78
Fact checking, a nearly lost art -- New Yorker
They seem almost quaint in the age of the internet, fact checkers who pour over every word in an article making sure everything is accurate. Fact checkers still work at some magazines, including the New Yorker. Here is John McPhee's account of how they operate. Note: The link above will direct you to an abstract of the article. If you are a subscriber, you can read the entire piece; if not you will need to subscribe or pay a fee to read the article.
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