Hi Lance,
You'll need to use the 'featured news' widget. Just go into the options and choose 'show target: on click' and 'hide target: on click.'
Managing "hundreds" of articles like this is going to be a real pain in the arse, so you're maybe better having a seperate blog, and making a popup window that contains the article using the instructions I gave on this post: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1037307?start=0&tstart=0
Hope that helps! For any more questions, tweet me: @upchurchpwm
Thanks,
Nathan