While Springsteen was on the road, I drove to Colts Neck, where he and Patti live on a three-hundred-and-eighty-acre farm.

NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

This turned out to be a distance of twenty-six miles three hundred and eighty-five yards.

NEWYORKER: Glory Days

In 2010, according to a study by the Australia Institute, eighty-three per cent of domestic mining production was owned by foreign companies.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns.

NEWYORKER: Battleground America

Eighty-three percent said the most important ingredient for a vibrant public market is investor appetite compared to 33% who pointed to the need for easier reporting requirements (read: Sarbanes Oxley).

FORBES: U.S. Venture Capitalists: We're Outta Here

Negotiations failed, and in December Picard filed a complaint against the Wilpon group that ultimately ran to more than three hundred and eighty pages.

NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

Andrew Carnegie, eighty-three, once the mightiest industrialist in all the world, now a wizened and influenza-ravaged man who for nearly two years had been under doctors' care in his block-long, six-level mansion on Gotham's Millionaire's Row, took up the instruments brought to him and began to write as if possessed.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Meet You In Hell'

According to the CouchSurfing Web site, the average age of members is twenty-eight, with more than a third between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four (seven hundred and ninety-three members are between eighty and eighty-nine).

NEWYORKER: You��re Welcome