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Drugs Online

by Barry Yeoman on May 1, 2001

Viagra, Prozac, diet pills, even party drugs—all can be had with just a click of your computer mouse. And there’s little anyone can do to stop the growing Internet drug trade.  Originally published in Ladies’ Home Journal.  THREE YEARS AGO, MARY ELLEN MELLOR received a phone call from her husband, who was at a hospital. “I’m in […]

Steel-Town Lockdown

by Barry Yeoman on May 1, 2000

Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world.  Originally published in Mother Jones. Reprinted in The Best Business Stories of the Year, edited by Andrew Leckey and Marshall Loeb (Vintage Books, 2001).  BOB HAGAN WAS READING HIS E-MAIL one July afternoon when the telephone rang at his home in Youngstown, […]

Scam Schools

by Barry Yeoman on February 1, 1997

Thinking of learning a new job skill? Beware of phony colleges that promise great careers but leave graduates with worthless certificates and staggering debt.  Originally published in Good Housekeeping.  BRANDI E. CANICK, 28, LIVES WITH HER HUSBAND, a welder, in an apartment in Kearns, Utah. Three years ago when she decided her job at a dry cleaner […]

No Ways Tired

by Barry Yeoman on July 1, 1996

Click here for “No Ways Tired,” Southern Exposure, Summer 1996. Opens as a PDF.

Don’t Count Your Chickens

by Barry Yeoman on July 1, 1989

Click here for “Don’t Count Your Chickens,” Southern Exposure, Summer 1989

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