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Great white shark with its mouth open.

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Great white sharks, endangered frogs and more

The Cassowary bird at Lahore Zoo.

Invasion of the Cassowaries

Passions run high in an Australian town: Should the endangered birds be feared—or fed?

For some people in the region (Chapel of All Saints, San Luis, Colorado), the DNA results have been a revelation.

Cracking the Code of the Human Genome

The 'Secret Jews' of San Luis Valley

In Colorado, the gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer found mainly in Jewish women is discovered in Hispanic Catholics

Scrapped fishing boats in Fort Bragg (salvagers Bruce Abernathy and his son David) testify to the sharp decline of chinook salmon.

On California's Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon

For the first time there's no fishing for chinook salmon on the California coast. The search is on for why the prize catch is so scarce.

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How Breast Cancer Genes Work

Though we may talk of cancer as one disease, skin cancer has little in common with pancreatic cancer and breast cancer is something else entirely

Still life: Fall chum

For Salmon Fishermen, It’s Fall Chum to the Rescue

For the Yup'ik people of Alaska, fall chum is the answer to a troubled fishing season and a link to the outside world

Amid the city’s ribbons of freeway and corporate spires, says the author, the sky offers "a huge, open relief."

Southern Comfort

Celebrated poet Mark Doty succumbs to Houston's humid charms

Iran's anger over decades of foreign meddling in its internal affairs reached its apex in the 1979 revolution.

Inside Iran's Fury

Scholars trace the nation's antagonism to its history of domination by foreign powers

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Given the "Green Light" to Create

Sarah Muehlbauer began sewing coaster-sized circles of wax paper together in her textile design course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

The toothache tree of North America, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis

Chinese Spices Hijack Your Taste Buds

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Deep Sea 3-D: Even a Four-Eyes Can Have Fun

A review of Deep Sea 3-D by a 3-D movie skeptic

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The Million Word March

What defines a word? Lexicographers and other experts don’t always agree

History's "Global Languages"

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People's Design Award: Pick Your Favorite

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Mistakenidentosaurus Becoming a Thing of the Past

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On the Mall: Sipping Pinotage at the National Museum of African Art

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News Flash: You May Be Boring Your Dog

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Bill Viola: The Mind's Eye

Jeff Koons Takes Over Versailles

The monastery from inside the ramparts at twilight.

In Iraq, a Monastery Rediscovered

Near Mosul, war has helped and hindered efforts to excavate the 1,400-year-old Dair Mar Elia monastery

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