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July-August 2013
Features
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CSI: Italian Renaissance
Inside a lab in Pisa, forensics pathologist Gino Fornaciari and his team investigate 500-year-old cold cases
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The Big Heart
Oil and culture are a powerful mixture in Houston, which has quietly become the most diverse city in America
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Behind the Mask
A new film revives the Lone Ranger. But is it the same old Tonto?
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The Education of a Bomb Dog
A top training academy works double time to meet skyrocketing demand for canines with a nose for danger
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League of Her Own
Did 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell strike out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig? Yes. Well, maybe
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Mind Over Matter
Before the elusive Higgs boson could be discovered—a smashing success—it had to be imagined
Departments
From the Castle
A new gallery opening in September highlights some of the most famous stamps in American history
Two Faces, One Portrait
A collage artist creates surreal identities
Star Power
Tim McCoy’s astronomy course is helping to revive a lost Native American language
Books
The promise of synthetic biology. Plus: the summer of 1776, zombie science and chugging across Italy
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