He heard the sound of footsteps, and moments later the deaf-mute girl was kneeling at his side in the little room, digging him out of his tarp, brushing the hair from his forehead with worry in her eyes.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

Sometimes, an answer emerges to explain why a 6-year-old girl with Type 1 diabetes starts to writhe uncontrollably on her right side and has a voice tremor, or why a woman in her 50s is bulking up without any apparent reason.

CNN: Girl's mother just had 'feeling' something was wrong

The girl soon gathered dozens more, which her mother carried to the other side of the street.

WSJ: Why Do the Toads Cross the Road? It's Mating Season in Philadelphia

In a side pocket, a faded picture of two boys and a girl in braces, squinting on a beach.

NEWYORKER: Found Objects

The story of poor-girl-makes-good was never quite straight, the fame never without its tawdry side, the money never reliably there, the behaviour rarely unembarrassing.

ECONOMIST: Anna Nicole Smith

Sabriel flinched as the girl screamed, hesitated for a moment, then bent down by the rabbit's side and reached out with one pale hand to touch it between its long ears.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Sabriel'

The scandal lets her shed her skin: among other things, she can identify as a Latina from the wrong side of the tracks, instead of as a private-school-educated white girl.

NEWYORKER: Seen but Not Heard