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We Don’t Always Get the War We Want
It’s four in the morning on my 38th birthday, and I am staring up at the thatched roof of a small jungle clinic in Karen State of eastern Burma, the home of the world’s longest-running armed...
View ArticleSamsung GALAXY Camera "Life's A Photo": Is Milan the Most Photogenic City?
Vote for your city: http://samsungcamera.tumblr.com Samsung gave the new GALAXY Camera to 32 photographers to prove that their city is the most photogenic in the world. In part 5, Samsung...
View ArticleThe Rape in Delhi: Thousands Protest for Women's Safety in India
Two weeks ago, outside one of New Delhi’s most popular malls, a 23-year-old physiology student and her male friend decided to catch a bus home after seeing a movie. It wasn’t very late, only about 9...
View ArticleWeediquette - First-Timers in the Hindu Kush
The year was 1978. My uncle Daoud was hiking through the tribal regions of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. These days that area is one of the most dangerous places in the world, home to...
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Dogmageddon: Subtle Forces
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri India's not really mentioned too often in these round-ups. That's because, for the most part, there's a smokescreen around how terrible their primary religion, Hinduism, actually...
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Combover: Santa Daddy
All photos by Janicza Bravo. Featuring Angela Trimbur. Well, now I’m depressed. Really down in the dumps. I don’t know what to do. My mind is spinning like a dreidel. And my body feels like a couple...
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Brief Reviews of Every Movie I Saw in Theaters in 2012
I don’t try to hate every movie I see, but I’m also not into playing the mirage game. If I give someone $15 or however much it is now to sit in that little room, I at least want to feel like I’m being...
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Christmas in Palestine
I spent Christmas morning sleeping next to the roof of Bethlehem’s prison. Bethlehem, the Palestinian city of 25,000 where Jesus Christ was born two millennia ago, has an ancient history of lacking...
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Bath Salts in the Wound
A view of Roanoke from the Roanoke Star. Federal agents swept through the area and surrounding towns to clear Amped and other synthetic drugs from the shelves, weeks before their sale was to become...
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Kill the Engine: Ten Things That Happened in Skateboarding During 2012
I thought I'd close out 2012 with a list of things that happened in skateboarding this year. I don't consider myself an expert and certainly don't keep up with the staggering skate video output the...
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You Will Never Be as Rich as These Pets
Photo by iStockphoto/darak77 When you’re about to be kicked out of your squat and are scanning the sidewalk for enough change to buy some ramen noodles, you always dream that someday you’ll somehow...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
It's time to point and laugh at wimps again. Cry-Baby #1: Nina Chaplin The incident: A woman was unhappy with the Christmas dinner she bought. The appropriate response: Complaining to the people that...
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Employees of the Month
TECHNICOLOR SKULL Technicolor Skull is a collaboration between filmmaker and ridiculously amazing thereminist Kenneth Anger and musician, artist, filmmaker, and writer Brian Butler. They call it a...
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Pen Pals: Holidays in Jail
For the 2 million Americans in prison, the holidays are a terrible time. It’s terrible for their family members too—they’re trying to enjoy what should be the most wonderful time of the year, and...
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'Breaking Bad' May As Well Be Set in China
It was in China that I was introduced to meth. I mean, it was thanks to Beijing's pirated DVD shops that I first saw Breaking Bad, or as my dealer knew it, 绝命毒师 jué mìng dú shī (“deadly drug master”)....
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Tubesteak: How to Get Laid at the Gym
Photos by Ben Ritter It's only January 2 and your New Year's resolution is already screwed. Look at you, bumming cigarettes from your friends, having just one toke before you go to work, and huffing...
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Another Year on the Streets
Well, congratulations. If you're reading this, you've most likely made it through another holiday season with little more than a series of hangovers, a healthy annoyance at your extended family, and a...
View ArticleSamsung GALAXY Camera "Life's A Photo": Is Paris the Most Photogenic City?
Vote for your city: http://samsungcamera.tumblr.com Samsung gave the new GALAXY Camera to 32 photographers to prove that their city is the most photogenic in the world. In part 6, Samsung follows...
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Drug Lords
Los Zetas crime syndicate may be one of the more tech-savvy of Mexico's drug cartels, building and operating its very own DIY cartel radio network. But the gang, known for its brazen, intimidating...
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