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Enormous magma reserves may sit quietly for just thousands or even hundreds of years
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Among the peaks, cirques and summits of the French Pyrenees, the greeting call to an American on a bike may always be "Armstrong!"
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An almost complete skeleton was sold for more than a million dollars, but what will become of this rare specimen?
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Flying aboard aircraft? Just a passing fad
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If you've flown Virgin America, you've seen its distinctive safety video. But what's the story behind it?
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Will the recent purchase of AMC theaters by a Chinese billionaire mean more Asian films in theaters? Likely not, but here are some to watch in the meantime
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Smithsonian Folkways honors the blind folk musician who died yesterday at the age of 89
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It might be predictable that hamburger is considered a masculine food, but what about rabbit or orange juice?
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The trail is rough and hard to follow, marked chiefly by cairns; water is intermittent; and if something bad happens help is not at hand
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Stegosaurus was as aerodynamic as a brick, but one writer thought the prickly dinosaur used its huge plates for gliding
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Making nests in trees keeps chimps comfortable and safe from nighttime predators
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Before it became known as the "idiot box," television was seen as the best hope for bringing enlightenment to the American people
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What flight attendant uniforms say about airline brand identity, cultural attitudes, and passenger psychology
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
A new technique reads DNA base by base by threading it through a tiny pore
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When scientists mapped the human genetic blueprint, people said it would change medicine because we'd be able to get clues about our future health
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Between grocery stores, wine shops, artisan bakeries and farm stands, I regain each calorie I burn in style and taste
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The peculiar way birds grow up got its start among feathery non-avian dinosaurs
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For generations immersed in social media, culture means a different thing than it did in 1940
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Instead, Etta Shiber, a widow and former Manhattan housewife, helped smuggle stranded Allied soldiers out of Nazi-occupied in Paris
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