This is outright copyright infringement.  To read the article online you need to be a subscriber to the New Yorker magazine (link: <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/18/100118fa_fact_gladwell" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/18/100118fa_fact_...</a> )  I doubt that scribd link has their permission to duplicate and redistribute like that.  I know this is probably not a popular thing to point out but if this is acceptable then are we going to start linking to torrents of pirated movies too?