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Joshuah Bearman

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Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World's Most Ingenious Thief | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World's Most Ingenious Thief | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

Wired — The plane slowed and leveled out about a mile aboveground. Up ahead, the Viennese castle glowed like a fairy tale palace. When the pilot gave the thumbs-up, Gerald Blanchard looked down, checked his parachute straps, and jumped into the darkness. He plummeted for a second, then pulled his cord, slowing to a nice descent toward the tiled roof. It was early June 1998, and the evening wind was warm. If it kept cooperating, Blanchard would touch down directly above the room that held the Koechert Diamond Pearl. He steered his parachute toward his target.
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The Legend of Master Legend | Culture News | Rolling Stone

The Legend of Master Legend | Culture News | Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone — Master Legend races out the door of his secret hide-out, fires up the Battle Truck and summons his trusty sidekick. "Come on, Ace!" he yells. "Time to head into the shadows!" The Ace appears wearing his flame-accented mask and leather vest; Master Legend is costumed in his signature silver and black regalia. "This is puncture-resistant rubber," Master Legend says proudly, pointing at his homemade breastplate. His arms are covered with soccer shinguards that have been painted silver to match his mask. "It won't stop a bullet," he says, "but it will deflect knives." "Not that any villain's knives have ever gotten that close!"
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Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter?

Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter?

The New York Times — The face of the enemy flashed across a 20-foot screen. “That’s right,” Jason Rohrer announced. “It’s Roger Ebert.” There were a few boos, as several hundred people stirred in their seats. The film critic’s cherubic face stared at the audience. “Ebert said video games can’t be art,” Rohrer said. “He issued all of us a direct challenge. And we need to find an answer.”
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My Half-Baked Bubble

My Half-Baked Bubble

New York Times — Los Angeles "SARDINES are better than candy," my father said. "They're oily, but nutritious!" Easy for him to say. I was 8 and had just moved to a new, fancier school. The socioeconomic shift was most apparent to me in the cafeteria, where there was a wide disparity between my lunch and everyone else's. Ours was a Spartan household: no chocolate, cookies or extraneous sugar. For us, Rice Krispies cereal was supposed to be some kind of special indulgence. My childhood happened to coincide with that historic moment in the early '80s when the full ingenuity of modern science was brought to bear on lunch snacks.
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How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

Wired — November 4, 1979, began like any other day at the US embassy in Tehran. The staff filtered in under gray skies, the marines manned their posts, and the daily crush of anti-American protestors massed outside the gate chanting, "Allahu akbar! Marg bar Amrika!" Mark and Cora Lijek, a young couple serving in their first foreign service post, knew the slogans - "God is great! Death to America!" - and had learned to ignore the din as they went about their duties. But today, the protest sounded louder than usual.
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The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms | This American Life

The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms | This American Life

www.thisamericanlife.org — Joshuah Bearman tells the story of Pete's ridealong with the PI Moms, and how strange things started to happen. As he dug deeper into their operations, he learned about cases like the Candyman, where everything gets oddly and unnecessarily complicated. And he learns about the involvement of Norm Wielsch, the top drug enforcement officer in Contra Costa County. He starts to get mysterious emails from an anonymous source who calls himself "Rutherford." (29 minutes)
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Santa Fight Club

Santa Fight Club

www.thisamericanlife.org — A tale of two Santas. There's Tim Conaghan, a full-time professional Santa with a big belly and a real flowing white beard. And there's Santa Nick—he too has a belly and real white beard. But the story of Santa Tim and Santa Nick is not like most uplifting Christmas parables. Instead, it's about two men, very much alike, who came to lead rival factions in a bitter Santa civil war, and came themselves to be arch enemies. Josh Bearman reports on the political schism that's overtaken the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas.
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