News (Page 63)
January 24, 2023
Life Expectancy Between Two Chicago Neighborhoods Reveals Years of Systemic Racism
But the pride isn’t perfect, and neither is Chicago. Two neighborhoods, just nine miles apart, have vastly different tones. Englewood, a predominantly Black, impoverished neighborhood, and the Gold Coast, a mostly white, wealthy neighborhood, are separated not only by the towering steel skyscrapers of the Loop but also by a startling 30-year gap in life expectancy.
January 24, 2023
How a Former Marine Turned Hitman is Changing Lives for the Better
In 1994, Self was arrested and booked on suspicion of possessing a silencer - a silencer used in the 805 freeway shooting of a San Diego orthopedic surgeon, Dr. William Shoemaker. This wasn’t any everyday run-of-the-mill unexceptional shooting; it was an attempted hit. Dr. Ronald Neufeld, a former medical partner of Dr. Shoemaker, enlisted the services and expertise of Self to kill his medical partner after taking out a $1 million life insurance policy on him.
January 13, 2023
The Wisdom of the Cat: Rehab According to the Pre-Domesticated Feline
(REDMOND, Wash.) — At the far end of an unremarkable strip mall in downtown Redmond, Wash., past an Irish pub, […]
January 6, 2023
The Problem With a Crypto King’s Mega Donations
(PHOENIX) — Millennial crypto billionaire Samuel Bankman-Fried caught people’s attention when he donated more than $10 million to an unknown […]
December 22, 2022
Under the Flesh of an Industrial Slaughterhouse
(BE’ER SHEVA, Israel) — In Harper’s Magazine’s May 2013 cover story, “The Way of All Flesh,” American author and journalist […]