There was a time when a cane was the exclamation point to a gentleman's attire, but canes have also been put to a remarkable range of uses
Photographer O. Winston Link documented the final days of steam engines on the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last main line to use them
The child was returned thanks in large part to a national clearinghouse that employs the latest technology to locate missing kids
Garbo, Chaplin, Keaton yesteryear's screen giants dazzle audiences anew at Pordenone, the world's most pretigious silent-film festival
He would chronicle it all the Civil War, the schoolyard games, the raging coast of Maine yet the man remained a mystery to the end
Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to keep its readers hungry for more, issue after issue? Don't ask
The National Zoo and its branch, the CRC, pioneer conservation biology and seek new ways of support
The Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex, has yet another address: the World Wide Web
It appears to be made out of spare parts, but the only mammal equipped with a carapace is actually a model of ecological efficiency
Whether stunting on the streets, gliding off to work or lining up for the orthopedist, nowadays in-line skates are the way to go
From their modest Manhattan digs, Constance Lowenthal and her staff do their best to foil the criminals who swipe treasures for a living
In The World Beneath, the sequel to his best-selling Dinotopia, author-artist James Gurney unveils a ravishing, action-packed adventure
Review of 'Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines'
Exhibits at the National Museum of American History commemorate our diverse World War II experiences
To teach science, says the ten-year-old National Science Resources Center, there is nothing better than getting young hands on simple experiments
These ponderous pinnipeds continually set new records for diving to crushing depths; researchers are hard at work to discover just how they do it
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