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An all-Indian Customs unit possibly the world's best trackers uses time-honored techniques to pursue smugglers along a remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border
January 2003 | By Mark Wheeler

Travels with Kofi Annan
January 2003 | By Stanley Meisler

December 2002 | By Richard Liebmann-Smith

By introducing a note of modesty, Marilyn Monroe's gloves actually heightened her come-hither allure
December 2002 | By David H. Shayt

In a single day 95 photographers document a wildly diverse continent bursting with energy and promise
December 2002 | By Smithsonian magazine

Misguided restorations of the exquisite Buddhist shrines of Pagan in Burma may do more harm than good
December 2002 | By Richard Covington

Laura Hillenbrand beat the odds to write the hit horse-racing saga while fighting chronic fatigue syndrome, a mysterious disorder starting to reveal its secrets
December 2002 | By Larry Katzenstein

Thanks to the mega-selling Worst-Case Scenario handbooks, we now know how to cope with charging bulls, plunging elevators and runaway locomotives. But we remain woefully unprepared for dealing with good fortune. I've consulted the world's leading experts on best-case scenarios, and here are some suggestions:
November 2002 | By John Tierney

Scientists cast tall shadows but find themselves hard pressed to explain the blues to Mongolians
November 2002 | By Donovan Webster

Iowa abbey monks craft fine caskets for the recently departed and "pre-Need" customers alike
October 2002 | By Sam Hooper Samuels

Los Angeles' insatiable thirst for water, which drained the Owens Valley, has ruined lives, shaped the city's politics and provoked ongoing controversy
October 2002 | By Mark Wheeler

Thanks to new technology, backyard stargazers have traveled light-years of late to join professionals in mapping the heavens
September 2002 | By Timothy Ferris

From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses
September 01, 2002 | By David Stewart

Fifty years after her death, innovative Italian educator Maria Montessori still gets high marks
September 2002 | By Nancy Shute

When two Naval officers entered the inferno of the Pentagon's west flank to search for survivors, they put their own lives on the line
September 2002 | By Ken Ringle

August 2002 | By Lawrence M. Small

For a few fleeting moments in 1956, Elvis Presley was still an unaffected kid from Tupelo, Mississippi, and the road to stardom seemed paved in possibility
August 01, 2002 | By Alina Corday-Taylor

A dedicated nun spares not the rod (nor reel) in helping youngsters straighten up and fly right
July 2002 | By Kent Black

Batteaux were once the lifeblood of Virginia commerce; now locals celebrate those bygone days
June 2002 | By T. Edward Nickens

Ed Rich gave magazines a whirl. And then some
June 2002 | By Carey Winfrey

May 2002 | By Smithsonian magazine

At schools near Shaolin, the famous Buddhist temple, students from all over china vie to be the next Jet Li or Jackie Chan
May 2002 | By Smithsonian magazine

A new public television series transplants three American families to the frontier West of 1883, without electricity, running water or gasp! visits to the mall
May 2002 | By Doug Stewart

A Magazine Should Have the Zest of a Good Dinner Party.
April 2002 | By Owen Edwards

April 2002 | By Edith Pearlman

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