There was no love lost between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. But at the very brink of failure, they found a way to reach agreement
In the 1970s, British accountant Alfred Wainwright linked back roads, rights-of-way and ancient footpaths to blaze a trail across the sceptered isle
The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum
In a remote region of Cameroon, an international team of scientists takes extraordinary steps to prevent the recurrence of a deadly natural disaster
Accident and serendipity played their parts in the inventions of penicillin, the World Wide Web and the Segway super scooter
In the Iraq war, highly trained cetaceans helped U.S. forces clear mines in Umm Qasr's harbor
No one knows if SARS will strike again. But researchers' speedy work halting the epidemic makes a compelling case study of how to combat a deadly virus
Stanford Addison uses intuition, compassion and persistence to "break" wild horses
Bold, garish and steamy cover images from popular pulp-fiction magazines of the 1930s and '40s have made their way from newsstands to museum walls
Exquisite art and artifacts from the world's earliest civilization are dazzling visitors to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographer Bob Adelman's picture of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken 40 years ago, captures one of the greatest speeches in American history
At 22, Jennifer Shahade is the strongest American-born woman chess player ever
Returning to Philadelphia from England in 1775, the "wisest American" kept his political leanings to himself. But not for long
For 100 years, Harleys have fueled our road-warrior fantasies
Amid all the hoopla, it's easy to lose sight of the expedition's true significance
Momentous or merely memorable
Researcher Frans de Waal shows that apes (and humans) get along better than we thought
But no exorcisms, please these rare orchids are the stars of a hit movie and a best-selling book
Noreen Grice has given the visually impaired a feel for the universe
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