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“He Did Not Look Like Your Typical Teenager. I Assumed He Was An Adult.”

In the article, Brian MacKinnon hinted that he would get plastic surgery and try to enter medical school under a new identity. In 1997 Granta published its “Ambition” issue. It contains a really great...

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How Whitfield Diffie Created PowerPoint

"A mathematician, a former peacenik, and an enemy of exclusive government control of encryption systems." Whitfield Diffie created a tool to help him explain a product, but it was the tool itself that...

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“The Person At The Head Of The Snake Stepped Up To The Next Available Cashier...

Single-file lines that snake around–like at airports or banks–haven’t always been the way people queued up. According to “Mr. Next,” Ian Parker’s fun 2003 “Talk” piece in the New Yorker, the practice...

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