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From The Chicago Tribune, Crack cocaine: One woman's tale.

Harvard checks in on 4 students who dropped out in the '60s.

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Douglas R. Smith’s Heartbreaking Photos of Foreclosed Homes

Run, Pharm Boy, Run!: an ultrarunner documentary profiling one runner as he undertakes the San Francisco One Day race. There's something appealing about running a time instead of a distance (ie running for 24 hours with no prescribed endpoint). It like the idea of just getting in the zone of, ok, I'm going to be doing this all day, it doesnt matter if I go quickly or slowly....just accepting that it will be 24 hours and heading into that experience.

From Foreign Policy: Where Have All the Girls Gone? Western money and advice really did help fuel the explosion of sex selection in Asia.

"The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality." - Wendell Berry