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Born on January 31, 1937 in Baltimore, Phillip Glass began studying music at age 6.

Meet Phillip Glass

From opera halls to neighborhood movie theaters, Philip Glass attracts an enormous audience many of whom have never listened to classical music

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Magic Moments

A new book and a Paris arts center pay homage to photography's elusive 95-year-old grand master

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Book Review: Veiled Threat

Reading Lolita in Tehran

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Tumult and Transition in "Little America"

A quarter century of civil war over festering ethnic animosities has renewed questions about the U.S. role in the African nation

The fabled road (a c. 1955 postcard) stretched 2,448 miles.

Antique Road Show

Before the Interstates passed the highway by, America got its kicks on Route 66

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Tribal Talk

Immersion schools try to revive and preserve Native American languages

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The Man Who Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance

The schoolroom staple didn't originally include "under God," even though it was created by an ordained minister

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Flashbacks

Reconsidering JFK and Sylvia Plath

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This Month in History

November anniversaries—, momentous or merely memorable

President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally ride through the streets of Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, the day of Kennedy’s assassination.

The President's Been Shot

Forty years ago, the assassination of JFK stunned Americans, who vividly recall the day even as they grapple with his complex legacy

This image of the Sun's outermost layer, or corona, was taken June 10, 1998, by TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer). The Earth-orbiting NASA spacecraft, launched two months earlier, has an unobstructed view of the Sun eight months of the year. It is helping to solve the mystery of why the Sun's corona is so much hotter (3.6 million degrees Farenheit) than its surface (11,000 degrees Farenheit). TRACE is also shedding light on solar storms, which damage satellites and disrupt power transmissions.

Celestial Sightseeing

From Triton's active geysers to the Sun's seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before

The Atchafalaya Basin (dark green in this satellite image, with the Atchafalaya River running through its center) is almost a million acres of bottomland woods and swamp.

Saving Atchafalaya

A more than 70-year effort to "control" America's largest river basin swamp is threatening the Cajun culture that thrives on it

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Ouch!

A new finding that fish feel pain has set off a tortured debate about the ethics of angling

The hall combines natural history with state-of-the-art technology.

New Hall on the Mall

A dazzling exhibition space celebrates mammalian diversity through re-creations of habitats on four continents

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Hooked on Aging

Our writer tries to just say no to getting older

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Folk Art Jubilee

Self-taught artists and their fans mingle each fall at Alabama's up close and personal Kentuck Festival

The warts and all approach of obituarists such as Andrew McKie of the Telegraph (left) and the Denver Post's Claire Martin (right) gives an "accurate portrait of those who have embellished and undermined our society," says obits scholar Nigel Starck (center).

Dead Lines

Today's obituary writers sum up lives famous and not with pans as well as paeans

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Eminent Victorians

Julia Margaret Cameron's evocative photographs of Lord Tennyson and other 19th-century British notables pioneered the art of portraiture

Venus de Milo

Base Deception

In 1821, the French carved a classical Greek sculpture. In the Venus de Milo, they thought they finally had one. Never mind that it wasn't really classical

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Paper Chase

Looking up his high school Permanent Record Card leaves our author curiously grateful for his failings

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