When cyclist Danny Chew was 21, he resolved to ride his bike a million lifetime miles. Then, at age 54 and 783,000 miles into his quest, he crashed and became paralyzed.
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Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photograph by Michael Swensen.
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To Build a Mosque in America
After 18 years and $1.5 million, the Islamic Society of New Hampshire is still struggling to build its own place of worship.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Miranda Purves. Photograph by Christopher Gregory.
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Refugee Runner
Yiech Pur Biel was born amid a civil war in South Sudan. Soldiers burned down his village, his parents left him, he grew up in a refugee camp. Now he’s readying to compete in the Olympics.
ESPN
Edited by Vic Seper. Photographs by Georgina Goodwin.
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Runaway
Of the hundred slaves to toil for President George Washington, Ona Judge was the only one to escape and tell her story.
Amazon Kindle Singles
Edited by Ali Castleman.
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Refugees, Inc.
Two Norwegian brothers are cashing in on the refugee crisis.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Brad Wieners. Photos by Espen Rasmussen.
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How The West Wasn’t Won
The economics behind militiaman Ammon Bundy’s occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Brad Wieners. Photo by O.B. Kerr.
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Rise of a Running Nation
Lon Myers was the greatest American runner of the nineteenth century and also a Sephardic Jew. In 1882, he ran a series of three one-on-one footraces against England’s best runner, Walter George, at the Polo Grounds, in New York City.
Runner’s World
Edited by Christine Fennessy. Illustrations by Bruce Emmet.
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Poison Oysters
In the spring of 2015, oystermen in Washington state were poised to start a nerotoxin on the beleaguered oyster beds of Willapa Bay. But then this story broke. Public pressure ensued, and the oystermen caved—and scratched all plans to spray.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Emily Biuso. Photographs by Cameron Karsten.
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Booze, Guns, and Poetry
Arkansas poet Frank Stanford killed himself in 1978, at the age of 29. Today, novelist Michael Ondaatje calls his work “the most overlooked writing I know.” A look at a great Southern genius.
Men’s Journal
Edited by Larry Kanter. Photograph by Ginny Stanford.
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