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Last of the Wild Buffalo

Long displayed, long dispersed, the famous Hornaday bison "family" is reunited in a new home

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When Permafrost Isn't

Slowly rising temperatures are melting the frozen ground that underlies most land at high latitudes

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The End of the Road

In Idaho's Clearwater National Forest, old logging roads that ruin streams are getting the axe

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Yalta: Witness to History

When the Big Three —Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin —convened at this fabled Crimean seaside resort in 1945, the whole world was watching

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Inexplicable Moments

Strange things happen at this wacky crossroads of the hopelessly alien-addled in the Nevada desert

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Good-bye, Rhode Island

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Moving Big Stuff

If you can move a lighthouse, you can move anything

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Martin Johnson Heade: An American Original

A master of light, atmosphere and mood, the 19th-century artist is now recognized as one of this country's great Romantic painters

Breck Girls

A Mediterranean Feast

Book Reviews: A Mediterranean Feast

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Jeu de Paume, Anyone?

Pete Sampras and the Williams sisters play tennis. The author and his fancy French friends prefer its ancestor

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Ready...Aim...Fire!

A risky experiment reveals how medieval engines of war brought down castle walls

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Increase, Diffusion and...Inspiration

Toussaint Louverture

A Mystery in Miniature

An enigmatic button once decorated the uniform of Haitian liberator Toussaint Louverture

Secretary Lawrence M. Small

A Renaissance Man

From finance to feathers, Secretary Lawrence M. Small brings diverse talents to the Smithsonian

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Sloth Bears: They Eat Ants, but Take on Tigers

Still used as "dancing bears," they can hold their own with the big cats but not with human expansion

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Making the Chips that Run the World

Making the Chips that Run the World A piece of cake: put 9½ million transistors in a space the size of your thumbnail and allow zero contamination

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The Boys Choir of Harlem Sings a Song of Hope

Hard work, discipline and tough love help inner-city choristers achieve lofty goals

Sir John Bernard Burke

Class Dismissed

Being a member of the British aristocracy these days isn't exactly a dog's life, but it's no bed of roses

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Picturing the American Century

As the 1900s slip away, New York's Whitney Museum recalls the artists and images that made these years uniquely ours

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