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August 2007

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Features

US Coast Guard

The Pirate Hunters

As buccanneering is back with a vengeance, stepped-up law enforcement and high-tech tools work to help protect shipping on the high seas

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Americans in Prague

A second wave of expatriates is now playing a vital role in the renaissance of the Czech capital

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Elvis Lives!

Thirty years after the King's death, there's still a whole lotta shakin' goin' on, thanks to legions of "tribute artists"

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Hemingway's Cuba, Cuba's Hemingway

His last personal secretary returns to Havana and discovers that the novelist's mythic presence looms larger than ever

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Pride of the Realm

An extraordinary collection of pictures has traveled from the United Kingdom's national portrait gallery to ours

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On the Case

Kathy Reichs, the forensic expert who helped inspire the TV show "Bones," talks about homicides, DNA and her latest novel

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Native Trout Are Returning to America's Rivers

Native trout are returning to America's rivers and streams, thanks to new thinking by scientists and conservationists

Departments

Indelible Images

A Horrible Blessing

"How am I going to save my grandbabies?" she asked after the hurricane struck, two years ago this month

Points of Interest

Points of Interest

This month's guide to notable American destinations and happenings

My Kind of Town

Some Don't Like It Hot

Atlantans regard summer—and the overheated tourists it spawns—woefully

Wild Things

Wild Things: Life As We Know It

Mammoths, Clownfish and Traveling Plants

This Month in History

August Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

From the Castle

From the Castle

Mighty Mouse

The Object at Hand

Baby Dell

A proto PC harkens back to the birth of an industry