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Miami Splash

Art Basel Miami Beach is a giant fair that’s fueling the city’s explosive arts scene

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From the Castle

Co-Evolution

Part of the housework of a London housewife, 1941

Domestic Bliss

The Kama Sutra of Housework

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Chia Pet

For 26 years, marketing whiz Joe Pedott’s green-pelted figures have been holiday-season hits

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Married, With Camera

Portraitist Emmet Gowin’s most enduring subject is his wife

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Jukebox

Hitting the Right Notes

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Letters

Readers respond to the October issue

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Ike at D-Day

Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s defining moment comes to life in an excerpt from Michael Korda’s best-selling new biography

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Revolutionary Real Estate

Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived

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December Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable

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The Strange Lives of Polar Dinosaurs

How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?

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Keeping Cool

Keeping Cool in Cretaceous Australia and melting-pot Marseille

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Taking a Dinosaur’s Temperature

Polar species heat up one of paleontology’s great debates

A huddle grows around the high priests, with one young priest bearing an ikon, or holy picture, while others hold ornate gold and silver crosses.

Keepers of the Lost Ark?

Christians in Ethiopia have long claimed to have the ark of the covenant. Our reporter investigated

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Marseille’s Ethnic Bouillabaisse

Some view Europe’s most diverse city as a laboratory of the continent’s future

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At Home. For Now

The acclaimed novelist probes our yearning for a fixed address

Christmas in Lalibela

50,000 pilgrims descend on Ethiopia’s “new” Jerusalem

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Parrots Before Penguins

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Super-Sized Scorpion

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