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Thomas Mucha, GlobalPost: My top 5 longreads of...

Thomas Mucha is the editor at GlobalPost Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books High on the Stones Any writer who can connect Henry David Thoreau, Benjamin Franklin and Keith Richards in the same sentence is definitely worth reading. Nicholas Schmidle. The New Yorker Getting Bin Laden Why is this so great? Do I even need to say? Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair It’s the Economy, Dummkopf Because...

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WATCH: JACK Wildlife Sanctuary helps rescue chimps that have been illegally captured and sold for food or as pets.

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reuters: The Year in 60 Seconds : 2011 A multimedia showcase of some of 2011’s top stories, including Japan’s tragic earthquake, the Arab Spring, the demise of Osama bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi, the shooting rampage in Norway, famine in Somalia and the Royal Wedding. Multimedia editing by Jillian Kitchener.

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2011 - year in review interactive →

guardian: The news in 2011 was being recognised as exceptional long before the year began to draw to a close. Our interactive reviews 2011 as a whole but also captures running stories that defined the year from the Arab spring to the UK riots and from phone hacking to eurozone debt. You can click through the pictures on the interactive to see how 2011 unfolded day-by-day or choose to see...

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The most popular stories of 2011

2011 was a big year for GlobalPost. We included the work of more writers, living in more countries, writing more stories. We also brought in more traffic than ever before. Here’s a list of the most popular stories on GlobalPost in 2011. Turns out, they aren’t all about sex. (Just many of them.) Read the most popular GlobalPost stories of 2011.

Dec 13th

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