This week for BuzzReads, Alex French spends a week at one of the fastest growing cities in America: an 100,000 person retirement community in Florida called The Villages. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
Seven Days And Nights In The World’s Largest, Rowdiest Retirement Community — BuzzFeed
Boasting 100,000 residents over the age of 55, The Villages may be the fastest growing city in America. It’s a notorious boomtown for boomers who want to spend their golden years with access to 11 a.m. happy hours, thousands of activities, and no-strings-attached sex, all lorded over by one elusive billionaire. Read it at BuzzFeed.
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The Right Thing to Do vs. The State of Florida — SB Nation
Thirteen years ago, 18-year-old Devaughn Darling died after a workout in a hot Florida State University gym. Michael Kruse asks why the school has refused to pay the $1.8 million courts say his family is owed. Read it at SB Nation .
Photo courtesy of the Darling family / Via sbnation.com
The Rise of the Post-Clinic Abortion — New York Times Magazine
Emily Bazelon profiles an activist named Rebecca Gomperts who is fighting to deliver abortion pills to women in countries where it is illegal. The crisis she's combating is real and largely unreported: "The World Health Organization estimated in 2008 that 21.6 million unsafe abortions took place that year worldwide, leading to about 47,000 deaths." Read it at the New York Times Magazine .
Photograph by Sarah Wong for the New York Times
Eighty Years of Fergusons — BuzzFeed
The story of violent black protest in the U.S. is an old one, Adam Serwer writes — it’s self-destructive but it sometimes gets results. Read it at BuzzFeed.
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