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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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Mystery on Mall: Case Closed

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Bouillabaisse a la Marseillaise

Julia Child’s recipe

Art Cologne

2008 International Art Fairs

A listing of some of next year’s premier art shows

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Bones to Pick

Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic

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Mystery on the Mall, Round 2

Posted from Christchurch, New Zealand

Head Toward the Light

Guessing Game

Conspicuous Consumption

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