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Two doctors in Boston may have found a way to identify which homeless people are most in need of urgent medical care
May 17, 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
Even in democratic nations, mothers and daughters are held back from basic freedoms
May 15, 2012
| By Kathleen Burke
The renowned author of the memoir Infidel found refuge here from persecution abroad
June 2012
| By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The cold war may be over, but sales of a new breed of bomb shelter are on the rise. Prepare to survive Armageddon in style
June 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
A new campaign has enjoyed stunning success in lowering the number of chronically homeless in the United States
June 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
A photographer's images of domestic tranquility pay tribute to U.S. service members
May 2012
| By T.A. Frail
In an exclusive excerpt, read about the mysterious death of a young teenager that inspired a complicated web of European intrigue
April 12, 2012
| By Joshua Hammer
From the Beats to CEOs, the residents of Sausalito’s houseboat community cherish their history and their neighbors
April 04, 2012
| By Jeff Greenwald
They helped overthrow Qaddafi by smuggling arms and spying on the government. Now the women of Libya are fighting for a greater voice in society
April 2012
| By Joshua Hammer
The 1,080-foot-high Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, opening in April, has also been labeled the "Hotel of Doom"
March 2012
| By Mark Strauss
After half a century of studying jib-jabbing, linguists have just finished the nation's most ambitious dictionary of regional dialects
March 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
Spurred by rising global demand for the metal, miners are destroying invaluable rainforest in Peru's Amazon basin
February 2012
| By Donovan Webster
People in the Old Country won’t touch the stuff, but immigrants to the American Midwest have celebrated it for generations
December 08, 2011
| By Erica Janik
Klallam tribal members make plans for holy ancestral sites to resurface after the unparalleled removal of nearby dams
December 2011
| By Abigail Tucker
Giving factory flour the heave-ho, small farmers from New England to the Northwest are growing long-forgotten varieties of wheat
December 2011
| By Jerry Adler
A chance find has rescued the work of the camera-toting baby sitter, and gallery owners are taking notice
December 2011
| By David Zax
In Sonoma County, apple growers battle against the wine industry and cheap Chinese imports
November 02, 2011
| By Alastair Bland
The college city's big sky and endless farmland gave this New Yorker some fresh perspective
November 2011
| By Meghan Daum
The toppling of Egypt's government has led to a renewal of violence against the nation's Christian minority
November 2011
| By Joshua Hammer
The Indians who greeted Columbus were long believed to have died out. But a journalist's search for their descendants turned up surprising results
October 2011
| By Robert M. Poole
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