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| By Amanda Bensen
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May 2008
| By Ben Conniff
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| By Dick Polman
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April 2008
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| By Nicole Wroten
In the South, the Gullah struggle to keep their traditions alive
June 01, 2007
| By Whitney Dangerfield
His last personal secretary returns to Havana and discovers that the novelist's mythic presence looms larger than ever
August 2007
| By Valerie Hemingway
On Minnesota lakes, Native Americans satisfy a growing hunger for "slow food" by harvesting authentically wild rice the old-fashioned way
September 2007
| By Lauren Wilcox
Some 200 Native American languages are dying out and with them valuable history
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For author Julia Alvarez and her husband, starting an organic coffee plantation was a wake-up call
October 17, 2007
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As it always does, given enough time
May 2008
| By Carey Winfrey
The Roger Bossard way to great grass
April 2008
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