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...archive officially opened for business June 27, and since then we've had nearly 1.5 million searches. The two "best selling" articles so far have been "Closing in on Cancer," from May of this year, and "Talking to the Dead," a story from March about dance instructor turned medium John Edward. The "best selling" article from before 1990 is "Everyone's Genealogical Mother," a story from 1987 about a scientific report that suggests that an African female living a couple of hundred thousand years ago may have been humanity's single ancestor...
Informal instruction is a system where members who actually know how to sail take beginners out onto the water. Usually, an instructor will let the beginners do most of the sailing. While it’s supposed to be a safe way to be introduced to the water, I’ve never felt more at risk than while being instructed...
...wind was incredibly strong, so the boat heeled sideways a lot, and every time I jibed—turned the back of the boat into the wind—I worried that as the sail swung across the boat it would take me with it. Lucky for me, my instructor believed that practice made perfect, so we jibed at every possible opportunity. Then my worst nightmare came true, and we crashed into a boat twice the size of ours that had suddenly appeared in our path...
There was no introductory lesson—not even a five-minute demonstration on how to make the hunk of metal stop and go. The only words of wisdom shared by my dear driving instructor were that if he at any point yelled, “Hands off!” I had to remove my hands from the wheel and let him take control. Those instructions were somehow less than reassuring...
...arrived when a cab tried to cut me off. Jay told me to floor it. “Never give in to the ‘Yellow Daemons!’” he yelled. I sensed a hint of latent road rage in my externally placid driving instructor...