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September 2002

Features

When two Naval officers entered the inferno of the Pentagon's west flank to search for survivors, they put their own lives on the line

Ken Ringle

Fifty years after her death, innovative Italian educator Maria Montessori still gets high marks

Nancy Shute

From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses

David Stewart

Thanks to new technology, backyard stargazers have traveled light-years of late to join professionals in mapping the heavens

Timothy Ferris

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