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October 2011
Features
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The Jaguar Freeway
Conservationists have teamed up with an entrepreneur to connect populations of the big cat from Mexico to Argentina. The bold plan could mean the animal's salvation
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What Became of the Taíno?
The people who greeted Columbus are long believed to have died out. But a journalist's search for their descendants turns up surprising results
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Change Agent
Willem de Kooning redefined modern painting. Then he did it again. And again. A major new retrospective charts his seven-decade career
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The Passion of Madame Curie
Her profound dedication to science led to a new view of matter itself—and often made it difficult for outsiders to understand her
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Cocktails in Greenland
The ice that covers 80 percent of the island is melting. Which makes the place a hot destination for the latest travel trend: climate-change tourism
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The Great Pumpkin
No one takes backyard produce more seriously than competitive vegetable growers, who are closing in on the Holy Grail of extreme gardening—the one-ton squash
Departments
Innocence Abroad
Ruth Orkin and Jinx Allen set out to produce a lighthearted photograph. The controversy would come later
Wild Things: Wildcats, Pigeons and More...
Sea monster mamas, bat signals and opossum versus viper
Lucky Bird
High in the Tibetan plateau, a Buddhist monk is saving one of the world's rarest birds
Scattered Actions: October 1861
While the generals on both sides deliberated, troops in blue and gray fidgeted
Secretary Clough on Jefferson's Bible
The head of the Smithsonian Institution details the efforts American History Museum conservators took to repair the artifact
Moving Images
"Whether it was TV or magazines, the world got changed one image at a time," says Maurice Berger, curator of a new exhibit at American History
Ready for Her Close-Up
Needing a new image, China's last empress dowager summoned a photographer
Did Zoo Animals Anticipate the August East Coast Earthquake?
Did Zoo Animals Anticipate the August East Coast Earthquake?
Q&A: Al Worden
The astronaut talks about his lunar mission, the scandal that followed and the future of space missions
Crossing the Color Line
Fifty years ago, Black Like Me gave readers an unflinching view of the Jim Crow South. How has the book held up?