Monthly Archives: February 2014
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MOZART AND THE WHALE
When Jerry and Mary Newport met, the connection was instant. A musical genius and a mathematical wonder, the two shared astronomic IQs, but they also shared something else — they both were diagnosed with Asperger’s […]
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INSIDE THE MIND OF BTK
This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, […]
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HIGHER PURPOSE
As Tom Whittaker struggled to keep conscious the night of 27 November 1979, his thoughts focused on a singular plea: Please, don’t let them take my legs. Earlier that evening, a drunk driver struck Tom’s […]
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FELIX BAUMGARTNER
Felix Baumgartner breaks the speed of sound—without an aircraft Not long before skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium-filled balloon 24 miles above the Earth, he sat in an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles to […]
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MEDIA STAR TO MELTDOWN
When the Kony 2012 campaign was at the height of its viral frenzy on March 12, with millions having viewed the charity video that brought Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony into the world’s crosshairs, it wasn’t […]
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1965-2012 RODNEY KING
About once a year, Rodney King would be watching TV in the living room of his Rialto, California, bungalow when a program would flash the infamous footage of him being beaten nearly to death. The […]