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Once a basketball phenom and a hiphop deejay, Suhaib Webb is now a Muslim cleric with a vast following among millennials and also a bone to pick with Donald J. Trump.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photographs by Pete Marovich.
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At age 77, long distance hiker George “Billy Goat” Woodard has no fixed address and is forever walking in the wilderness or making his way to the wilderness—on trains, in friends’ cars, and sometimes by hitchhiking.
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photographs by Bob Stefko.
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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.
Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photograph by Michael Swensen.
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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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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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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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Two Norwegian brothers are cashing in on the refugee crisis.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Brad Wieners. Photos by Espen Rasmussen.
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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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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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