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'Goodfellas' Mobster Henry Hill Has Died – The
Atlantic Wire
Disarming Viktor Bout (Mar 2012) – The
New Yorker
The end of the line for world’s most notorious
weapons trafficker:
Cocaine Incorporated – NYT
How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions
Kid Cannabis (Oct 2005) – Rolling
Stone
The story of an Idaho pizza delivery boy
turned weed kingpin: ‘Our plan was to make 3 million and get out. When you
crunch the numbers, that’s nothing. We figured out we could do it in fourteen
months. But when you’re making twenty or thirty grand a week, why the fuck
would you stop?’
The streets of Tirana and the roots of
Albanian-American organized crime – Capital
New York
In June 2010, 17 men were arrested and charged
by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan with a long list of
federal RICO mob charges that included robbery, kidnapping, murder, drug
dealing, weapons possession, conspiracy, extortion, arson, and obstruction of
justice. They all came from Albania.
WORLD
FiveBooks Interviews: Paul Theroux on
Travelling – The Browser
Travel is a leap in the dark, says Paul Theroux
– and one that will leave you a different person at the other end. He
recommends five travel books that inspired him, from Mark Twain at sea to VS
Naipaul in India
Such tips as "don't hand out cash to
dinner guests" reveal what foreign tourists find surprising about coming
to America.
PEOPLE
Shattered Glass (1998) – Vanity
Fair
At 25, Stephen Glass was a reporter wunderkind,
regularly filing incredible pieces for the largest magazines. When suspicion
fell on his sources, things started to really get strange. It wasn’t just
sources and organizations he was inventing, but whole stories
John Nash Documentary – Cheap Talk
This is a 1 hour PBS documentary from 2002.
Our Billionaire Philanthropists – The Awl
With wealth consolidating ever upward in America, private foundations are growing like topsy. More than 120,000 such
groups controlled around $583 billion in 2010.
OTHER
What Facebook Knows – technology
review
The company's social scientists are hunting for
insights about human behavior. What they find could give Facebook new ways to
cash in on our data—and remake our view of society.
Voyager space probe reaches edge of solar
system – Reuters
The Voyager 1 space probe has reached the edge
of the solar system, extending its record for being the most distant man-made
object in space.
Scientists theorize neutrons may be escaping
into mirror universe
– The
Raw Story
Suddenly That Summer – Vanity
Fair
It was billed as “the Summer of Love,” a blast
of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967. Who
were the true movers behind the Haight-Ashbury happening that turned America on to a whole new age?
Jesse Ventura Explains Why Governments Are Like
Gangs – Forbes
My Father and Me: A Spy Story – GQ
It was just a favor to dear old dad. But the
next thing Nathan Nicholson knew, he was jet-setting around the world under
cover and selling state secrets to the Russians. You know what they say: Like
father, like spy
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