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February 2011
Features
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Warsaw on the Rise
A building boom is led by "starchitects" aiming to transcend the Polish capital's troubled past
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Snow Phantom
Rare and maddeningly elusive, lynx try to give scientists the slip high in the mountains of Montana
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The Reluctant President
It seemed as if everyone rejoiced at the election of George Washington except the man himself
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Flower Power
Chances are the bouquet you're about to buy came from Colombia. What's behind the blooms?
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Wayne Thiebaud Is Not a Pop Artist
He made his name painting cakes, gumboil machines and other everyday subjects. But, entering his tenth decade and still hard at work
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Invisible Glory
Two unsung space telescopes create eye-opening images of the universe from light we can't see
Departments
Wild Things: Great Whites, Tree Snakes, Drongos and More
These animals redefine life as we know it
Interview with Jane McGonigal, Computer-Game Developer
Computer-Game Developer, San Francisco, CA
Nature Boy
Fauna and flora (not all of it welcome) surround the novelist at his onetime fixer-upper by Frank Lloyd Wright
Survival Training, Ferret Style
Before the captive animals can go free, they have to hone their killer instinct
Battle Station
Samuel Eliot Morison's monumental eyewitness history of the Navy in World War II—now being reissued—won't be surpassed