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Two men, a hovercraft, and a year adrift in the Arctic Ocean
The central Arctic is contested water and almost nobody is in it. In 2014 two Norwegians parked a hovercraft on a floe and let it carry them 2,200 km.
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Features: longer reads on how things actually work
Longer reads on how things actually work.
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Features are the longer reads: the pieces that need more than a headline's worth of mechanism to make sense. A career-change process, a transport naming decision, a hiring pipeline: subjects where the interesting part is the sequence of steps rather than the outcome.
The form here is explanation rather than narrative. There is no scene-setting paragraph before the substance, and no summary paragraph after it: the piece starts at the first thing a reader needs and stops when the mechanism is described.
Where a feature touches a system with a public record (a quota, a price index, a reliability measure), that record is linked and, where possible, charted on the page rather than described.
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