The Hunt: They Didn’t Need Fancy Amenities or a State-of-the-Art Medbay, but a Waste Recycler Would Be Nice. Which Spaceship Did They Choose?

Brask and Coutilla have been living with crewmates on a cramped freighter based out of Brooklyn. The couple wants to establish a bloodline and has finally saved up enough credits to strike out on their own. "A brood nest was a necessity, but everything else was negotiable," said Coutilla.

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NY Times: Airbnb Horror Story

Early in the evening of July 4, Micaela Giles’s mobile phone started sounding alerts, and a series of messages straight out of a horror movie began scrolling down her screen. Her 19-year-old son told her that his Airbnb host in Madrid had locked him in the fourth-floor apartment where he was supposed to be staying and removed the key. The host was still there, he said, rattling knives around in the kitchen drawer and pressing him to submit to a sexual act. He begged his mother for help.

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Read more about the article New York Investment Banker Vows to Unlock Mysteries of Midwestern Brain
“The key lies within the Midwestern brain and the nodules, which rise on the surface of the skull,” said Walsh, an investment banker turned amateur phrenologist. Photo: http://goo.gl/5bmfND

New York Investment Banker Vows to Unlock Mysteries of Midwestern Brain

New York—The Midwesterner: they grow our food and raise our children, but what do we really know of these simple folk from the hinterlands of the United States?

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A Master’s in Chick Lit

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I’m a genre writer. Gary Shteyngart hasn’t blurbed any of my novels, and Marion Ettlinger has never photographed me for a book jacket. I’m more at ease with the sequins and shirtless men at the Romantic Times conference than I am with the serious eyewear at poetry readings.

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