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Syria at a Crossroads

Following a humbling retreat from Lebanon and increasingly at odds with the U.S., the proud Arab nation finds itself at a critical juncture

Chef, restaurateur, and leader of the slow food movement, Alice Waters of Chez Panisse

Getting Kids to Eat Their Veggies

A Q&A with Alice Waters

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Animal Magnetism

Gregory Colbert's haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the US, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures

Jon Broderick

Rhyme or Cut Bait

When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away

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Lucky Man

A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace

The artifacts of the Pig War speak of peace: even these British Minié balls were discarded without having been fired.

Boar War

A marauding hog bites the dust in a border dispute between the United States and Britain that fails to turn ugly

Mexicans entering the United States

Cross Purposes

Mexican immigrants are defying expectations in this country-and changing the landscape back home

Tut's head, scanned in .62-millimeter slices to register its intricate structures, takes on eerie detail in the resulting image. With Tut's entire body similarly recorded, a team of specialists in radiology, forensics, and anatomy began to probe the secrets that the winged goddess of a gilded burial shrine protected for so long.

King Tut: The Pharaoh Returns!

An exhibition featuring the first CT scans of the boy king's mummy tells us more about Tutankhamun than ever before

The great Lakota chief Red Cloud at 51, in an 1872 portrait by Alexander Gardner

Chief Lobbyist

He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers

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Glyph Dweller

Archaeologist Alanah Woody's infectious enthusiasm for Nevada's rock art knows no bounds

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Reversing the Clock

Taking care of the nation's treasures requires art, history and even molecular science

Near the confluence of the three forks of the Missouri River, the site where the Jefferson, Gallatin, and Madison rivers meet, in Three Forks, Montana.

A Fork in the River

After deliberating for nine days, the captains choose the tortuous southwest branch of the Missouri toward the Great Falls

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Hazy Days In Our Parks

The air in many national wilderness wonderlands is getting worse. As officials debate new rules to curb pollution, scientists find sources are far-flung

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Killers In Paradise

The tropics are home to the world's most venomous creatures-jellyfish with 4 brains, 24 eyes and stingers that can kill you in a minute flat

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The Year Of Albert Einstein

His discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math

Biologist Sara Lewis (near Boston) says "they're very single-minded."

Your Branch or Mine?

Fireflies' come-hither signals are being decoded by penlight-wielding biologists who've found treachery, also, in the summer-night flashes

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Seeing a Ghost

A woodpecker feared extinct reappears in Arkansas

Mann now uses an old view camera.

Model Family

Sally Mann's unflinching photographs of her children have provoked controversy, but one of her now-grown daughters wonders what all the fuss was about

"Babai" Photographer: Kochi, 13 Kochi lives in a Calcutta boarding school, where she has learned English. "I feel shy taking pictures outside," she says. "People taunt us. They say, 'Where did they bring those cameras from?'"

Young Eyes on Calcutta

Zana Briski and collaborator Ross Kauffman's Academy Award winning documentary chronicals the resilience of children in a Calcutta red-light district

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Toulouse-Lautrec

The fin de sià¨cle artist who captured Paris' cabarets and dance halls is drawing crowds to a new exhibition at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art

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