It was hard not to notice the three boys dressed in plaid and suspenders sitting on the side of a road that split vast acres of wheat. A rapist, preying mostly on woman living on the city's South Hill, had police frustrated as the mounting toll of victims began to attract media attention. Three months later I found myself back in their fields documenting the harvest that their colony s finances rely completely upon. Climbers who reach the top are treated to a spectacular view of an active...

It is the fervent hope of this old friend of Mick's that somehow that charisma, combined with Mick's spiritual knowledge of death's impending harvest - and hopeful repentance - impressed God enough to grant salvation to his soul. But he had a strange pride in his faults, causing him to show the article around town, cherry-picking the parts about his sports heroics and, oddly, bragging that "it's all true. The desired effect was that he would grasp the realities of his life, causing him to...

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In Japan, a tradition called ama diving reaches back two millennia: The divers, mostly women, dive as deep as 40 metres to harvest oysters, seaweed and lobsters. Musimu had spent several hours following a special breathing regimen that would lower his heart rate and infuse his body with as much as oxygen as possible. The goal was to temporarily convert himself into a human version of the porpoise, which is able to stay underwater for up to eight minutes on a single breath. Musimu's effort...

It's a warm day in April, and the private dining room at Gramercy Tavern, one of New York City's top restaurants, is set for a tasting. Kevin Garry, Gramercy's assistant beverage director, has lined...