Reconsidering JFK and Sylvia Plath
November anniversaries, momentous or merely memorable
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Forty years ago, the assassination of JFK stunned Americans, who vividly recall the day even as they grapple with his complex legacy
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From Triton's active geysers to the Sun's seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before
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A more than 70-year effort to "control" America's largest river basin swamp is threatening the Cajun culture that thrives on it
A new finding that fish feel pain has set off a tortured debate about the ethics of angling
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A dazzling exhibition space celebrates mammalian diversity through re-creations of habitats on four continents
Our writer tries to just say no to getting older
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Self-taught artists and their fans mingle each fall at Alabama's up close and personal Kentuck Festival
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Today's obituary writers sum up lives famous and not with pans as well as paeans
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Julia Margaret Cameron's evocative photographs of Lord Tennyson and other 19th-century British notables pioneered the art of portraiture
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In 1821, the French carved a classical Greek sculpture. In the Venus de Milo, they thought they finally had one. Never mind that it wasn't really classical
Looking up his high school Permanent Record Card leaves our author curiously grateful for his failings
In a new book, a British journalist documents the day-by-day march into conflict in Iraq
The American journalist's harrowing 1871 quest to find England's most celebrated explorer is also a story of newfound fascination with Africa
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The legendary explorers carried destiny on their expedition. But they could not have fulfilled is without this unprepossessing device
From absorbing shocks to shock absorbers
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A new multimedia exhibition shows how innovations in transportation spurred the growth of the nation
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In an unexplored region of Africa's Atlantic coast, an innovative photographer captures Gabon's bountiful wildlife
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Fifty years ago, Eugene Aserinksy discovered rapid eye movement and changed the way we think about sleep and dreaming
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