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Just a few decades ago, one of the country's biggest superstars was a writer. Capote's story goes from pariah to celebrated socialite and back again
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While it's hard to be the consummate kitchen maven in the face of disaster, it's still possible to manage food prep without a fully functional kitchen
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What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet and giant dinosaurs never went extinct?
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Katharine Hepburn's Connecticut beach house and 8,900 other homes were swept into the sea
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The Smithsonian's unique collection of football art, memorabilia and unusual artifacts
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IBM scientists say their "cognitive" chip is a key step toward developing computers that think and learn more like human beings and less like calculators
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The director of the award-winning documentary reflects on what it was like to film a "real-life Salem Witch Trial"
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There is a reason, I discovered, that households of yore required at least one full-time homemaker to keep things running smoothly
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The museums are open today, but assessment of any damages from yesterday's earthquake will continue throughout the day
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Even so, a terrestrial, 16-foot, carnivorous crocodile-like predator is not something I would like to meet in a dark alley (or anywhere else, really)
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Today's shaking may have been unexpected, but Washington isn't the only unlikely location for an earthquake in the United States
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The Smithsonian museums, including the Zoo, are closed for the remainder of the day
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The sculpture shows a group of carnivorous dinosaurs chowing down on a sauropod, much like the dinosaurs of the country's Lourinhã Formation must have done
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When an 18-year-old girl went missing, the police let the case grow cold. But Grace Humiston, a soft-spoken private investigator, wouldn't let it lie
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Those who live outside the law sometimes meet their downfall through their relationship with food
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The boldly-colored paintings and sculptures of Washington D.C.'s own BK Adams enliven the museum's main gallery
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After an oil spill, should people put in the time and effort to clean up wildlife, or would it be better to just let the animals die?
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Corporate execs say they're looking for independent thinkers, but schools are stilled geared to assembly lines. Here are ideas to spur imaginative learning
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And why is one running loose in California?
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