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April 2014
Features
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Manchester’s Melting Pot
The great chess champion plots his next moves in the games of global politics and computer intelligence
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The First Wonder Women
The ancient Greeks obsessed over the legend of the Amazons. Was there any truth behind the myth?
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America's Best Small Towns
We’ve crunched the numbers and hit the road to help you discover this year’s pocket-size places to go for big-time or offbeat cultural offerings
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Re-made In Japan
Where is Americana better than in America? In the Land of the Rising Sun, where adapting foreign influences has become a form of art
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John Singleton Copley’s Grand Tour
Colonial America’s greatest painter left for Europe on the eve of the Revolution. A historian and her teenage son made the trip to see why
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Weightless
Thirty years ago, astronauts set out on the first untethered space odyssey
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The Twain Shall Meet
Meandering along the modern Mississippi, a traveler finds the landscape the great American novelist loved has not lost its romance—or its humor