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Pretty Girl Bullshit

Twitter Thinks Angelina Jolie Is Nothing Without Breasts

Unfortunately, there are lots of stupid and insensitive people on the internet, and they're all tweeting the same gag about feeling sorry for Jolie's fiancé, Brad Pitt. I'm fully aware that the internet's capacity for idiocy far exceeds whatever energy I can muster to damn it. But it all just strikes me as being really, really lame. Full story

What a World Without Hugo Chavez Looks Like

Hugo Chavez, the charismatic Venezuelan president, succumbed to his two-year bout with cancer on Tuesday, pushing the Latin American country into a new state of limbo. As the whole world watches, Venezuela now begins its inevitable transition to a post-Chavez world. Full story

My Month Without Sex

Eventually, some women are going to hear these three little life-changing words: “You have HPV.” I first found out I had the human papilloma virus just over two and a half years ago, and aside from it giving me the ability to make hilarious jokes about how I’m going to die of can… Full story

It's All Going to Be All Right

The hilarious and heartbreaking story of Coco Rachev, who, about two months after writing this article, on the 26th of December, lost the uneven battle against cancer. His aim was to take your mind away from the sanitized brochures of hospitals and fake True Hollywood Story speci… Full story

Did This Teenage Brainiac Cure Cancer?

Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka invented a tool to diagnose cancer that is 160 times faster, 100 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive than previous cancer-testing procedures. We asked him how he got so smart. Full story

Cancer Memoirs Are Breaking Out Like the Plague

The thing that motors cancer journalism, which makes it increasingly acceptable, even good, for hacks to tell all about the very darkest moments of their lives, is our craven culture of voyeurism. Nothing can remain private anymore, especially the bad stuff. Full story

I Was a Corporate Tobacco Peddler

You know that reoccurring dream you get where you feel so heavy and you’re trying to move or run but you’re not getting anywhere? And you scream for help, but your voice doesn’t make a sound? And everything is dark? That’s what it was like working at Philip Morris. Full story

Ode on a Grecian Pile of Crap

A Visit to Athens’s Secret and Massive Garbage Town

A brisk walk along Dionysiou Areopagitou and Panathinea streets, just ten minutes from the Acropolis, brings you to probably the crummiest neighborhood in all of Athens, Greece. Full story