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Jack Andraka, the Teen Prodigy of Pancreatic Cancer
A high school sophomore won the youth achievement Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for inventing a new method to detect a lethal cancer
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A Look Into Brazil’s Makeover of Rio’s Slums
The Brazilian government’s bold efforts to clean up the city’s notoriously dangerous favelas is giving hope to people who live there
January 2013
| By Joshua Hammer
Sebastian Thrun, winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for education takes is redefining the modern classroom
December 2012
| By Tom Vanderbilt
Bryan Stevenson, the winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in social justice, has taken his fight all the way to the Supreme Court
December 2012
| By Chris Hedges
Local politics take a dramatic turn in southern California over a plan to clean up an iconic American playground
November 2012
| By Claire Martin
A relic from the Cold War, this instrument of death gets a new life … and a new look
October 15, 2012
| By Lisa Bramen
Salman Khan, a rising star in the education world, has a vision for a new kind of classroom
October 01, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
The flyweight pugilist has spent all her life waiting for the chance to compete on the Olympic stage. Now, she just needs to win
August 03, 2012
| By Jim Morrison
A piece of history on the Pacific Coast was almost lost to budget cuts, until a Russian billionaire stepped in to save the endangered state park
July 06, 2012
| By Amy Crawford
Lured by the soaring price of the precious metal, prospectors are heading for the California hills like it's 1849 all over again
July 2012
| By Abigail Tucker
As her controversial new memoir will show, the leader of the U.S. women’s soccer team has always defended her turf
July 2012
| By Nancy Hass
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
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
From the Beats to CEOs, the residents of Sausalito’s houseboat community cherish their history and their neighbors
April 04, 2012
| By Jeff Greenwald
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 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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