Thursday, November 20, 2014

10 Amazing Articles by William Langewiesche

10 Amazing Articles by William Langewiesche:

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How to Get a Nuclear Bomb - It wouldn’t be easy. But it wouldn’t be impossible. A reporter travels the world to find out how.



The World in its Extreme - The Sahara is a desert so vast that no airplane can diminish it.



The Shipbreakers - “At Alang, in India, on a six-mile stretch of oily, smoky beach, 40,000 men tear apart half of the world’s discarded ships, each one a sump of toxic waste.”



Jungle Law - How hundreds of miles of rain forest became a toxic-waste dump.



The Million Dollar Nose - “The most influential wine critic in the world today is not a snob or an obvious aesthete, as one might imagine, but an ordinary American.”



The Expendables - The dark romance of the French Foreign Legion: haunted men from everywhere, fighting anywhere, dying for causes not their own.



The Chaos Company - Wherever governments can’t—or won’t—maintain order, G4S steps in.



Congo from the Cockpit by William Langewiesche - The Democratic Republic of the Congo, where old airplanes go to die



Anatomy of a Miracle - Geese, pilots, planes and an unbelievable landing on the Hudson



City of Fear - “São Paulo, Brazil, teeters on the edge of a feral zone where governments and countries lose their meaning, a wilderness inhabited by large populations worldwide, but officially denied and rarely described.”





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