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• Rip-off artists: how the boss absconded with your benefits 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JOHN SNOW won't have to worry about his retirement. When he left the CSX railroad to become George W. Bush's second...

  05/01/09 by David Cay Johnston · More from publication

• The hard sell: Mad Men make the pitch for saving consumerism 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN THE 1981-82 recession put a dent in steak sales, things could have gotten dicey for A1 Steak Sauce. Yet the...

  05/01/09 by Ted Genoways · More from publication

• Pouring biofuel on the fire: hunger. Corruption. Bankruptcy. Other than that, the green-fuel boom has been a smashing success 

  Henry Ford envisioned ethanol as the "fuel of the future"; his Model T ran on ethanol and petroleum. The International Energy Agency forecasts...

  03/01/09 by Jesse Finfrock Nichole Wong · More from publication

• Out of mind, out of sight: inside the psychiatric hospitals the world forgot 

  [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] HIDALGO, MEXICO, 1999. Though the sun is beginning to filter in through the barred windows, it's damp and cold in the...

  03/01/09 by Eugene Richards · More from publication

• Trading up: how Obama can fix the climate, raise billions for clean tech, and send you a fat check 

  {ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THOUGH IT'S NOT BEEN MENTIONED much lately amid the sea of bailout headlines, the global economy isn't the only thing...

  03/01/09 by Kevin Drum · More from publication

• Habeas Corpus 

  Habeas Corpus Living Things. Jive. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The political rock outfit Living Things has crafted a thrilling soundtrack for...

  03/01/09 by Jon Young · More from publication

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