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Friday, May 10, 2013

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Who Would Kill a Monk Seal?

An endangered-species murder mystery.

It’s the Economy

The Food-Truck Business Stinks

Why lukewarm hot dogs still rule the streets of New York City.

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Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?

Inside the mind behind “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal.”

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Riff

One Scene, 42 Takes and 2 Hours in a Bathroom Stall

Dissecting 28 seconds from my new film, “Frances Ha” — and the dozens of takes it took to get it right.

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Eat

Spring, Loaded

There really aren’t any rules to making a spring roll. Choose your fillings, roll it up, repeat.

The Money Issue

Boom, Bust or What?

Who has the better ideas: Larry Summers, who helped design U.S. economic policy under two Democratic presidents, or Glenn Hubbard, George W. Bush’s tax-cutting guru?

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Robert Diamond’s Next Life

Ten months after being pushed out as chief executive of Barclays, Diamond is trying to be something other than the “unacceptable face of banking.”

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Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine

At an entrepreneurial boot camp in Silicon Valley, they’re churning out billion-dollar ideas — whether we need them or not.

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High Fashion’s Ambassador From the Midwest

The pleasures and the perils of doing business with Ikram Goldman.

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Is This the Best Education Money Can Buy?

At Avenues, the $85 million bet on for-profit schooling is meeting its first real test — parents.

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Solve the popular variety puzzles from the Sunday magazine at our newly relaunched hub for New York Times crosswords.

Abstract Sunday
In Pursuit of Happiness

An illustrated guide to catching a buck.

Well

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.

Eat

Spring, Loaded

There really aren’t any rules to making a spring roll. Choose your fillings, roll it up, repeat.

Lives

My Desperate, Stupid, Emotional Hunt for the Perfect Pants

How I ended up in the bathtub with my jeans on, thinking I’d found the secret to life.

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The One-Page Magazine

In Defense of Food Critics

Louis C.K. vs. Louis XVI; rhubarb margaritas.

Talk

Edith Windsor Takes Back What She Said About Topless Gay Activists

The plaintiff of the Defense of Marriage Act case gives her theories on keeping love alive and pushing the envelope.

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The Ethicist

To Catch an (Almost) Thief

D.I.Y. justice.

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Operation: Mother’s Day

A step-by-step battle plan for a memorable (and pretty impressive) dinner for Mom.

Abstract Sunday Blog

In Pursuit of Happiness

An illustrated guide to catching a buck.

Look

The People You Meet at McDonald’s

A portrait of America through the Golden Arches.

Slide Show: The People You Meet at McDonald’s

A portrait of America through the Golden Arches.

From the Archive

Are the Rich Worth a Damn?

Adam Davidson on Mitt Romney’s former partner at Bain Capital, and other articles from the 2012 Money Issue.

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The Mind of a Con Man

Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature.

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How a Single Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States

What really happened after Raymond Davis killed two men in the street in Lahore.

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Riff

Why Your Grandpa Is Cooler Than You

How very old got very hip.

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The Largest Falcon Hospital in the World

It’s in Abu Dhabi, and it has operating rooms, an intensive-care unit and an ophthalmology department.

Making Art With Tom Waits

Images and commentary from the singer-songwriter and his longtime collaborator, the photographer Anton Corbijn.

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