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The most radical futurist on Earth sinks into a large black chair in the corner of his cluttered office. He’s jet-lagged. His skin seems waxen, a sickly yellow against the dark blue
THE CRAFT FIRST surfaced like something out of a science-fiction movie. It was November 2006, and a Coast Guard cutter spotted a strange blur on the ocean 100 miles off Costa Rica.
It began, as it always did, with a phone call to 911. “Now listen here,” the caller demanded, his voice frantic. “I’ve got two people here held hostage, all right? Now, you
It’s a brutally hot morning here at the Villages, one of the biggest retirement communities on the planet. But the saunalike central Florida weather doesn’t slow down the 77,000 seniors who call
ROBERT MANN HAD A RATHER unusual lunchtime ritual, at least compared with the other mechanics at Rietzl Audi Porsche in Norwell: The 48-year-old would drive over to the local T. J. Maxx.
The clock struck 3 a.m. Julian Assange slept soundly inside a private compound in Nairobi, Kenya. Suddenly, six men with guns emerged from the darkness. A day earlier, as Assange tells it,
It’s a grim gray day in Dundee, Scotland, an industrial city an hour north of Edinburgh, and Dave Jones is up to his usual tricks: stealing cars. And mugging pedestrians. And, oh,
The ballsiest bank heist in recent memory started off without much fanfare at all. It was a late September Tuesday, a much needed workday for the dozen guys huddled outside a strip
A few months after the World Trade Center attacks, a strange message appeared on a U.S. Army computer: “Your security system is crap,” it read. “I am Solo. I will continue to
One night around dinnertime, Kruse Wellwood sent an instant message to Kim Proctor. “Hey, I thought you had babysitting,” he wrote. “Did you finish early?” Gawky and boyish, 16-year-old Kruse had scraggly
