In the late 1990s, NASA spent $250 million on a satellite designed to monitor climate change. The satellite has never flown. What happened?
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Edited by Seth Fletcher. Illustration by Matt Dartford.
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Fixing Diane’s Brain
Diane Van Deren overcame epilepsy and then became a top ultramarathoner. Did her brain surgery help improve her pain tolerance, or is she just tough?
Runner’s World
Republished in Best American Sports Writing 2012.
Edited by Charlie Butler. Photograph by Evan Hurd.
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On With The Snow
The author launches a career as a nordic ski racer.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photos by Layne Kennedy.
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Tea Party Road Trip
Riding the bus from Ohio to Washington, D.C., with a contingent of Tea Partiers bound for Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell.
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Flogging Genghis Khan
Bicycling to the world’s largest statue of Genghis Khan, in Mongolia. Edited by Tim Lavin.
The Atlantic
Edited by Tim Lavin. Photo by Jeffrey Kerby.
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The Trail to Neverland
A summer with the college students working in the rustic hikers’ huts of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Edited by Dennis Lewon.
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon
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Semper Youngstown
Youngstown, Ohio resurrects itself from a Rust Belt death.
Inc.
Edited by Dan Ferrara. Photo by Greg Miller.
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The Green Bicycle Murder
On a warm summer evening in 1919, a comely young factory worker named Bella Wright set out for a bicycle ride through the country lanes outside Leicester, England. What happened next involved a revolver, a raven, and a shady character on a high-end green bicycle.
Bicycling
Edited by Bill Strickland. Illustrations by Chris Gall.
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The Boys from Brazil
American rodeo is taking on a Latin flair.
The Atlantic
Edited by Don Peck. Photo by Alison London.
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