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How The Upper Middle Class Is Really Doing

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The Biological Compulsion To Online Shop

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The Most Flagrantly Gratuitous Ways Celebrities Spend Their Millions

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It Was the Hottest Oscar Night Party. What Happened?

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A Tour Of A $67 Million NYC Mansion With An Entire Spa Floor

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It's Nice To Get An Unexpected Windfall, And Other Facts

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What Killed the Biggest Passenger Plane Ever Flown?

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The Billions At The Franchise Box Office

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Wealthy, Successful And Miserable

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Here's Why A Fridge On Air Force One Costs $24 Million

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How Much Each Extra Bedroom Costs When You're Buying A Home, Charted

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The Curious Politics Of A Montreal Mega-Mall

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Amazon’s $0 corporate income tax bill last year, explained

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Silicon Valley Doofs Are Spending $8,000 To Inject Themselves With The Blood Of Young People

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This Is How Dirty The Floor Of The New York City Subway Is

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Do Jails Kill People?

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Cops Pursue A Go-Kart In The Weirdest Police Chase We've Ever Seen

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Just How White Is 'White-Collar Prison,' And What Does It Really Take To Land Yourself There?

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How The Failures Of Forensic Science Totally Ruined One Man's Life

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Prosecutors Are Moving To Indict R. Kelly, After The Discovery Of Another Videotape

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Date Rape Drug Testing Is Bullshit

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When The Highest-Paid Hollywood Director Was A Woman

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'Who's An EGOT?': How '30 Rock' Made A Fake Award Into A Real-Life Goal

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How Hong Kong Prepared To Move From British To Chinese Sovereignty In 1997

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When Your Favorite Streamer Turns Out To Be A Creep (Or Worse)

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Social Media killed the Radio Calling Card

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How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired To Fix NBA Games

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How Long The Lifespans Of Ancient Civilizations Compare To One Another

husbandry: Palabra del día: February 18, 2019

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Why Denmark's Official Time Is A Fraction Of A Second Behind The Rest Of The World

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Follow The Path Of Least Resistance: An Oral History of 'Office Space'

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'Bill Hicks Was A Bit Misogynist' — Young Comics Reassess The Standup Legend

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Science: You're Definitely Worrying About The Wrong Things

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Mauritania's Iron Ore Train

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The Fishy Mystery Of Lake Malawi

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Everything You Think You Know About Corporate Tax Incentives Is Wrong

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Concrete: The Most Destructive Material On Earth

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The ecstatic, hypnotic chanting of 'kirtan' is a huge scene in the city. And that makes perfect sense.

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The Percentage Of Each State's Population Living In Its Biggest City, Mapped

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Berlin Builds An Arsenal Of Ideas To Stage A Housing Revolution

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The Urban Design Problem That's Killing Pedestrians And Cyclists

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Six Crazy Details From Alphabet's Leaked Plans For Its First Smart City

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How Much Each Extra Bedroom Costs When You're Buying A Home, Charted

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The Curious Politics Of A Montreal Mega-Mall

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A Nation-State For The 1%

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Hit By A City Bus — And Hit With A $27,660 City Hospital Bill

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What Happens When Sister Cities Break Up?

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The Singer Building: A Lost Monument To Industry — And Traditional Urbanism

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What Amazon got wrong about New York City

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'Amazon Isn't Bigger Than New York': Meet The Man Who Killed The Deal

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How Amazon Went From Choosing Queens For HQ2 To Pulling Out