Larger than life, for ill and good
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Momentous or Merely Memorable
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The Burgess Shale: Evolution’s Big Bang
A storied trove of fossils from a Canadian paleontological site is yielding new clues to an explosion of life on earth
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After a 35-year search, an Israeli archaeologist is certain he has solved the mystery of the biblical figure’s final resting place
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How the original 97-pound-weakling transformed himself and brought physical fitness to the masses
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Telluride Thinks Out of the Box
The fiction writer cherishes her mountain town’s anti-commercialism, as epitomized by the local swap stop, a regional landmark
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An ideal (and scenic) location to raise a family
Sleepy beach town filled with exotic wild life
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Need a Dose of Common Sense? Go See Thomas Paine
You’d never know by looking at Thomas Paine’s portrait with his fine clothes and his perfectly coiffed hair
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Dover was and still is a quiet pond in a seething ocean
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On the Hunt for Jefferson’s Lost Books
A Library of Congress curator is on a worldwide mission to find exact copies of the books that belonged to Thomas Jefferson
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