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September 2013
Features
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Passion Play
Al Pacino gets ready for the next act in his high-wire career—bringing live theater to the movie screen
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Tracking Balboa
Five hundred years after the explorer spied the Pacific, we retrace his epic slog
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No Alpha Males Allowed
Peace-loving South American monkeys and the U.S. scientist who champions their future encourage us to rethink our aggressive nature
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Soul of the Machine
David Hockney’s long, fierce love-hate relationship with technology is on display in a major new retrospective opening next month
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The Ephemeral City
In India, the world’s largest gathering attracts tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims— and a team of Harvard researchers seeking answers of their own
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Replaceable You
The same technologies driving the revolution in personal electronics are ushering in a new era in bionic limbs and organs
Argument from Design
A new poem by David Yezzi
Departments
Into the Wired
Grand-scale ecology brings a Virginia forest under unprecedented scrutiny
Books
Reckoning with 1945. Plus: discoveries at sea, Benjamin Franklin’s quiet sister and down and out in the South
Fast Forward
Chinese Lantern