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Tracking the D'bury Universe
We won't post new stories on this page every day, but whenever we do put something up you have our word: It will be about the strip. Guaranteed.
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Last Known Ebola Patient In Liberia Is Discharged
Liberia's last Ebola patient was discharged on Thursday after a ceremony in the capital, Monrovia, bringing to zero the number of known cases in the country...
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I Was A Professor At Four Universities. I Still Couldn't Make Ends Meet
Last week was the first ever National Adjunct Walkout Day, a grassroots protest to push for fair pay and better working conditions...
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Inside The Psychedelic Mind Of Björk
The most talked about MoMA show for years offers a glimpse of the Icelandic singer's magical world...
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The Semi-Retirement Myth
Don't buy the tales of meaningful work into your 70s. Your retirement is inevitable -- and bleaker than the last generation's...
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How Bees Revealed A Pot Farm Beneath The Maraschino Cherries
Red-hued bees led authorities to discover New York City's biggest-ever marijuana farm in the basement of a cherry factory -- triggering the owner's suicide...
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Elliot Ackerman Nails Afghanistan's Endless War
Most of the fiction and nonfiction inspired by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan concentrates on U.S. protagonists. Elliot Ackerman takes a far more illuminating approach...
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'The Best Employee We Ever Had' : Mohammed Emwazi's Former Boss In Kuwait
Mohammed Emwazi, the Briton identified as an Islamic State executioner, was once a star salesman for a Kuwaiti IT company...
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The Girl Who Gets Gifts From Birds
Lot of people love the birds in their gardens, but it's rare for that affection to be reciprocated. One young girl from Seattle is luckier than most. She fees the crows in her garden -- and they bring her gifts in return...
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Welcome To SubTropolis: The Massive Business Complex Buried Under Kansas City
More than 1,000 people spend their workdays in SubTropolis, an industrial park housed in an excavated mine the size of 140 football fields...
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HOLY WRIT
I didn't set out to be a comma queen...