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April 2015
Features
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La Dolce Via
Taste the good life on our favorite street, once home to Fellini and since 1953 the scene of Americans' sweetest "Roman Holiday"
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Traveler in the Sunset Clouds
The Indiana Jones of Imperial China has become a modern pop-culture celebrity
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Winds of War
In 1780, Lafayette sailed for America, armed with news that France would aid the Revolution. Today a new replica ship retraces the marquis' voyage
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Beyond Gettysburg
From New York City to France to Brazil, sites touched by America's Civil War have been little noted and not long remembered
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Dream Machine
Opening this month, a high-tech recreation of the immortal artworks in France's Chauvet Cave shines a new light on the dawn of the human imagination
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The Light Stuff
With 17,000 solar cells in its wing and tail, the aircraft relies solely on sunshine to keep its motors running