Articles

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Wolf Tracker

Biologist Gudrun Pflueger talks about her encounter with a Canadian pack

Flooding the Grand Canyon

Charlotte Schulz, The maximum of all possible hate is realized in the eternal moment, and we cleave to our screens as it unfolds in that disquieting way (an incompossible) (detail), 2005.

Drawing Rooms

"I Just Want to Fly"

Grainy Pics Dept: Return of the Carnivores!

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Serious Firepower

I'm Not An Artist And I Don't Play One on TV

Bright Moon, Warm Earth?

GRAND PRIZE WINNER A tribal birth in India Purulia, India • Photographed August 2007 Six days after Betka Tudu's birth, female relatives and neighbors in the West Bengal village of Purulia gathered to bless him and "to protect him from harm's way," says Dey. Born into the Santhal tribe, Betka "unknowingly drew his distant kin closer than ever." — Abigail Tucker

5th Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2007 contest

Where thousands of soldiers ferried supplies toward the front, a new road swings through Quang Tri Province

Revolutionary Road

Efforts to turn Ho Chi Minh Trail into a major highway have uncovered battle scars from the past

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Rebel with a Cause

With their reputed healing powers, Japan's onsen, or volcanic hot springs, have attracted the weary since the days of the samurai

Springs Eternal

In rural Japan, stressed workers and tourists seek geothermal ease

Tradition and change coalesce (young monks at a religious festival sport trendy shades, masks and a swastika—for Buddhists, a symbol of good fortune) in the remote, majestic country its citizens call Druk Yul or "Land of the Thunder Dragon."

The Changing Face of Bhutan

As the last Himalayan Buddhist kingdom cautiously opens itself to the world, traditionalists fear for its unique culture

Doors to the Hall of Middle Harmony have nine rows of nine knobs because the number nine is prized in Chinese numerology

Forbidden No More

As Beijing gets ready to host its first Olympics, a veteran journalist returns to its once-restricted palace complex

Bangkok's Songkran New Year festival washes away bad luck

Highlights and Hotspots

Celebrations, ceremonies and competitions sure to delight even the most seasoned traveler

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Letters

Readers Respond to the January Issue

"Renegades" says a former Indiana motorcycle-shop owner of bikers he knew, such as Sparky (Charles Ritter, left) and CowBoy (irvin Dunsdon), in 1965

Two for the Rogues

Sparky and CowBoy were fast friends, but Danny Lyon was able to keep up with them

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From the Castle

Tapestries

Rogone (in a San Bernadino hospital) says "my babies' motivated the inventions.

A Neonatal Niche

Medical companies ignored the needs of premature infants, inspiring a nurse to become an entrepreneur

Cover of the "Singing for Life" album.

Jukebox

Songs to Live By

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