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Cyrus Vance Jr.’s ‘Moneyball’ Approach to Crime

The district attorney of New York County believes you can get crime rates to zero — if you just look hard enough at the numbers.

Diverse Holiday Feasts From Five New York Families

From tamales to Persian chicken stew, from shrimp and grits to okonomi-latkes, five holiday feasts as multicultural as the New Yorkers who make them.

Radio-Free Syria

Raed Fares, a Syrian activist whose video protests skewer ISIS and President Bashar al-Assad alike, is dodging the threat of death from both sides.

My Great-Great-Aunt Discovered Francium. And It Killed Her.

75 years ago, Marguerite Perey unearthed an element on the periodic table while working as a technician in Marie Curie’s lab. Her achievement came at a great cost.

The Strandbeests Arrive at Art Basel

The filmmaker Bill Morrison tries to capture the uncanny aliveness of Theo Jansen’s strandbeests, set loose on Miami Beach for the first time.


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