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  • Steve Jobs’ Dream Device Has Arrived Pending

    Slate by Farhad Manjoo | May. 21, 2013
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    Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television. His fantasy device would control all the many doodads that ...

  • All Killer Tornadoes Since 1950 Pending

    Slate by Chris Kirk | May. 21, 2013
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    Tornadoes that have killed at least one person since 1950 A circle marks the end coordinates of each tornado. The area and transparency of each circle reflects the number of ...

  • Apple and the Idiocy of Taxing Profits Pending

    Slate by Matthew Yglesias | May. 21, 2013
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    Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at a 2012 event. The company paid $6 billion in taxes in the 2012 fiscal year and says it anticipates paying $7 billion this year. How does a company ...

  • Who's Your Daddy? Pending

    Slate by Daniel Engber | May. 21, 2013
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    23andMe asks for two layers of consent before it shows family relationships First Jackie learned her brother Alex (their names have been changed) was her uncle. Then things ...

  • Can a City be a Tornado Magnet? Pending

    Slate by Brian Palmer | May. 21, 2013
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    Philip Gotcher and his daughter Monica stand in the rubble of his house after the Moore, Okla. tornado. Not that we know of. Moore is in “Tornado Alley,” the vaguely ...

  • With a Little Love, and Some Tenderness Pending

    Slate by Mike Spies | May. 21, 2013
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    Darius Rucker performs onstage during 2013 Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival on April 28 in Indio, Calif. This may come as a surprise to you, but I don’t ...

  • Mad Men, Season 6 Pending

    Slate by Seth Stevenson | May. 21, 2013
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    It's fair to note that Mad Men—as best I can recall—has yet to introduce a black character who commands the full respect and admiration of our crew at SCDP. It's been all ...

  • Stop Hating on the IRS Pending

    Slate by Emily Bazelon | May. 21, 2013
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    Apple CEO Timothy Cook during a break from his testimony before the Senate about the company's offshore profit shifting and tax avoidance, on Tuesday But the analogy to Apple ...

  • Learning to Love the Poems of Edward Thomas Pending

    Slate by David Rivard | May. 21, 2013
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    I came to “There’s Nothing Like the Sun,” and Edward Thomas’ work in general, quite late, thanks to some of my more inane prejudices. The image I’d developed of ...

  • Mad Men, Season 6 Pending

    Slate by Hanna Rosin | May. 21, 2013
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    That fried-chicken peddling, hug-bullying, watch-stealing menace of a grandma has critics and viewers debating whether Mad Men has gone overboard this season or turned the ...

  • How Did "Tornado Alley" Get Its Name? Pending

    Slate by Jeremy Singer-Vine | May. 21, 2013
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    People assess the damage in Moore, Okla. after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 Yesterday’s devastating tornado in Oklahoma spun through the heart ...

  • Where to Hide From Mother Nature Pending

    Slate by Brendan Koerner | May. 21, 2013
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    A tornado devastated parts of Oklahoma City on Monday, twisting schools, hospitals, and neighborhoods into rubble and killing dozens of people. Tornado Alley is a dangerous ...

  • Thanks for Nothing Pending

    Slate by Emily Yoffe | May. 21, 2013
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    Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is on Washingtonpost.com weekly to chat live with readers. An edited transcript of the chat is below. (Sign up here to get Dear Prudence ...

  • Profiling Is Great ... Except When You Do It to Me Pending

    Slate by Farhad Manjoo | May. 20, 2013
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    Tea Party supporter Susan Clark of California, dressed in Colonial garb and face paint, rings a bell to show her opposition to Obama health care legislation as the law's ...

  • Give Spam a Chance Pending

    Slate by Anna Weaver | May. 20, 2013
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    The only part of the U.S. that fully appreciates Spam’s promise is not Hormel’s home state of Minnesota but Hawaii, where the canned meat is served and loved everywhere ...

  • But It's Not Fair! Pending

    Slate by Emily Yoffe | May. 20, 2013
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    Q. I Have a Life, Too!: I'm a junior attorney in my late 20s. I work in a busy office that prides itself on work-life balance, and many of my co-workers have young children. ...

  • The YouTube Preacher Pending

    Slate by David Weigel | May. 20, 2013
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    On Sunday afternoon, standing outside the Virginia GOP’s headquarters in vote-rich Fairfax County, Bishop E.W. Jackson finally became a real politician. He’d just won his ...

  • Mad Men, Season 6 Pending

    Slate by Seth Stevenson | May. 20, 2013
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    Have you ever hung out with people rolling on a triple dose of Adderall? It feels a lot like you’re rocketing down a highway in an Impala, blindfolded, with a loaded handgun ...

  • Obama’s Boyfriend Line Pending

    Slate by William Saletan | May. 20, 2013
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    President Obama hosts a reception in honor of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month on June 15, 2012, shortly after declaring his support for same-sex marriage On ...

  • Obama’s Other Secret War Pending

    Slate by Fred Kaplan | May. 20, 2013
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    The Obama Justice Department’s crusade against leakers just took a quantum leap—and it’s extremely worrisome. It’s one thing to go after officials who leak classified ...

  • The Coming Acquisition Wave Pending

    Slate by Matthew Yglesias | May. 20, 2013
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    Any time someone spends more than $1 billion to buy a company with little revenue and no profits, someone’s going to raise an eyebrow or two. But Yahoo’s acquisition of ...

  • A Wealth of GIFs Pending

    Slate by Emma Roller | May. 20, 2013
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    It’s hard to say. In most cases, the acquirer of a company will base its offer price on the projected increase in earnings per share that it expects to get out of the deal. ...

  • Mad Men, Season 6 Pending

    Slate by Paul Ford | May. 20, 2013
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    Like the MLK assassination episode, or the Kennedy assassination in seasons past, ”The Crash” involved an external influence, namely a whole bunch of speed injected right ...

  • Letter to a Young Scandalmonger Pending

    Slate by John Dickerson | May. 20, 2013
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    My Dear Protégé: 

  • Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite Pending

    Slate by Christopher Hitchens | May. 18, 2013
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    The other night, I was having dinner with some friends in a fairly decent restaurant and was at the very peak of my form as a wit and raconteur. But just as, with infinite and ...
 
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