Is It Possible To Disappear Completely?

Edward Snowden's journey around the world has taken him from Hawaii to Hong Kong, and now to Moscow.The 30-year-old former NSA contractor, who leaked highly classified information about the U.S. government's surveillance programs, left Hong Kong on Sunday on a flight headed to Moscow.On Tuesday, Russia's President Vladimir V. Putin confirmed that Snowden was in a transit area at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport and...

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Climbers Recount Murder On Famous Pakistan Peak

Late last Saturday night, gunmen dressed in paramilitary uniforms entered Base Camp at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan's second-highest peak, and murdered ten foreign mountaineers and a Pakistani cook. A spokesman for an Islamist militant group later claimed credit for the killings. It was the first time climbers had been targeted in that manner in Pakistan. The victims included three Ukrainians, three Chinese, two Slovaks,...

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The Secret Language Behind Cattle Brands

When 19th century Texas land baron Samuel Maverick flouted tradition by refusing to brand his cattle, he could not have known his name would come to represent everything from brassy independence to Tom Cruise to Alaskan politicking. But his indifference toward the status quo soon gave unbranded cattle the ranching land over the nickname...

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The New Drug Of Choice For Elites

By IRINA ALEKSANDERPublished: June 21, 2013 At a party not long ago in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Kaitlin, a 22-year-old senior at Columbia University, was recalling the first time she was offered a drug called Molly, at the elegant Brooklyn home of a cultural figure she admired. “She was, like, 50, and she had been written about in the Talk of the Town,” said Kaitlin, who was wearing black skinny jeans and a tank...

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Why Do Americans Have The Worst DVRs?

American DVRs are inferior to European ones for one very important reason. Photo by Thinkstock It took...

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Why The City Of Miami Is Doomed To Drown

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Questlove: Michele Bachmann Almost Got Me Fired From Jimmy Fallon Show

One of the best things about the Jimmy Fallon show â€" maybe the best thing â€" is that it’s a test of ingenuity every single day. It sent me back to the days of working with Dave Chappelle. But that show was brilliant guerrilla comedy; it happened on the fly and then some. The Fallon show is a day job in the best sense. We’re in by noon and gone by seven, and in between we make a show. It’s highly structured, and as a...

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The Surprising Reason Why Puppies Twitch In Their Sleep

When I brought my puppy home last August, I knew he would be fun to play with. I had no idea how entertaining he would be when asleep. He dozed constantly, and more often than not, his whole body â€" legs, tail, lips, eyes, ears â€" would twitch. This isn’t a quirk of canines. Sleep twitching happens to “literally every mammal that has been looked at”, says Mark Blumberg, a psychology professor at the University...

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My Secret Life As A Graffiti Artist

Glynn Judd Graffiti artist and former train-writer Glynn Judd, aka NOIR, in front of one of his paintings in north London. Photograph: Frantzesco Kangaris The case of Kristian Holmes, the graffiti artist jailed this week for three and a half years...

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A Reality TV Show That Airs Only On Twitter, Instagram

By BEN FRITZ Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal Crew members shoot a promo video with cast members of 'Summer Break' in Palm Springs, Calif. LOS ANGELESâ€"Two teenage boys sit by the airport here, competing to use their phones to take the best "selfie," or self-portrait,...

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