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June 2006
Features
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Below the Rim
Humans have roamed the Grand Canyon for more than 8,000 years. But the chasm is only slowly yielding clues to the ancient peoples who lived below the rim
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An Assassin's Final Hours
John Wilkes Booth, cornered in a Virginia barn, wanted to go down fighting: "I have too great a soul to die like a criminal"
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Learning from Tai Shan
The giant panda born at Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo has charmed animal lovers. Now he's teaching scientists more than they had expected
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Wyeth's World
In the wake of his death, controversy still surrounds painter Andrew Wyeth's stature as a major American artist
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Beyond the Wall: Berlin
Nearly 17 years after the wall came down, Berliners are still trying to escape its shadow
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Time and Again
In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph everyone in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he's doing it again, creating a portrait of heartland America
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Who Was Mary Magdalene?
From the writing of the New Testament to the filming of The Da Vinci Code, her image has been repeatedly conscripted, contorted and contradicted
Departments
Coal Miner's Daughter
"I'm 15. I'm getting married. My mother doesn't want me to get married." But that's just the beginning of the story
The Sound of Hoofs
In a breathtaking spectacle, wildebeest by the millions are on the move this month in the Serengeti
Object at Hand: Dead End
Fans of a battery-powered emissions free sedan mourn its passing
Wild Things: Life As We Know It
From chimpanzee communication to paper wasps and humans fleeing Vesuvius
Neil Shubin, Paleontologist, University of Chicago
The "missing link?" At least a step in a new direction