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New Rochelle, N.Y.

Voted best city to raise a family in

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Pondering the EcoFont

Like any workplace, I get my share of internal junk mail. Workshops, vacancy announcements, blood drives and Weight Watchers sign-ups

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Athens, Tenn.

Education, the arts, patriotism, family and respect for all

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Ashland, Mass.

Halfway between Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts

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A Link Between Dams and Earthquakes?

The earth is big, and so are the tectonic plates—it doesn’t seem possible that anything humans could do to the earth would have an effect on those plates

Egyptian archaeologists work at an ancient burial ground in Saqqara, dating back to 2,700 B.C., where a 4,300-year-old pyramid has been discovered at the Saqqara necropolis. It was first built for Queen Sesheshet, the mother of King Teti who founded the 6th Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom.

The Tomb of Queen Sesheshet

A recently discovered pyramid and tomb in Egypt may shed light on a dark episode in a pharaonic tradition of court intrigue

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Go to the Galápagos, See What Charles Darwin Saw

A senior editor visited the Galapagos - here’s what she saw

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Super Bowl. Party Time!

We at the ATM blog tirelessly searched the Smithsonian collections and turned up a sweet treat for our readers

Once loathed as a "beast of waste," the gray wolf (in Yellowstone) is beloved by some as a symbol of unadulterated nature.

Wolves and the Balance of Nature in the Rockies

After years as an endangered species, the wolves are thriving again in the West, but they’re also reigniting a fierce controversy

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