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Op-Ed Contributor The Destruction of Mecca Credit... Michela Buttignol WHEN Malcolm X visited Mecca in 1964, he was enchanted. He found the city “as ancient as time itself,” and wrote that the partly

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Robert Spychała: “One of the most damaging tools was the non-compete contracts for employees” http://t.co/87JoJeOVcZ

Khoi Vinh: Kind of shocking. The brief history and evolution of ATM skimmers. http://t.co/wVuq2PUNMa

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Geoff Barnes: What a fantastic and insightful article @ohheygreat wrote about modern dating, in today's New York Times. http://t.co/NUSRk9nv1a

H idden among the avalanche of documents leaked by Edward Snowden were images from a Powerpoint presentation by GCHQ, entitled The Art of Deception : Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Ope

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Forrest L Norvell: The Elizabeth Spiers profile of Shanley Kane is process-heavy, but I think that was inevitable given what went down: https://t.co/Dc0dmIaBCF

I sat across from him and listened. He was trim, tall, bearded (as they all seem to be), a recent transplant, having only lived in Seattle for a year or so and worked at a start-up, after burning out

Mathew Ingram: "Twitter’s executive turmoil masks a deeper problem: Confusion over what Twitter wants to be" http://t.co/jhN8aWEpZ6 http://t.co/NSlG3lAwoP

I'd read each issue from cover-to-cover, deciding on its predominant "themes," and record this data in an elaborate database program on my Apple IIe. As a finishing touch, I'd give each issue a "grade," emulating EW's own, then-novel system of affixing a grade to the media products it reviewed.

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In May of 2013, I signed on as a Collection Editor with Medium to launch LadyBits on Medium . It has been a thrilling experiment in new media publishing, business management, brand development, and te

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kenyatta: Today's must-read: @nickbilton on the birth of Twitter. Fascinating. via @NYTmag http://t.co/teKTyMOACo http://t.co/BGlpWiWwzp