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Digging up Egypt’s Treasures

The ten most significant discoveries in the past 20 years

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Snapshot: Paris Underground

Tunneling into the fascinating dark underbelly of the City of Lights

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Justice Cowgirl

The Willamette Meteorite is on view at the Natural History Museum.

Going Once…Going Twice…

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On the Prowl

Rare jaguar sightings have sparked a debate about how to ensure the cats’ survival in the American West

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Interview: Steven Amstrup

A new study spotlights the plight of the polar bear, but there’s still time to help the beloved creature

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Wild Things

Life as We Know It

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Galloping Ghosts

In Poland’s primeval forest, a Nazi scientist re-created an extinct breed of horse. Or did he?

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Who’s Fueling Whom?

Why the biofuels movement could run out of gas

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Beading the Way

How Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty created one of the centerpieces for the National Museum of American Indian’s “Identity by Design” exhibition

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Trunk Show

Even in 1992, Steve McCurry says, Kabul was full of surprises

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Turning a New Leaf

The story of one man’s fall

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The Gates of Paradise

Panels from the Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti tour the U.S. for the first time

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Jukebox

The Robeson Spirit

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What’s Up

Chinese artworks, wartime bonds and sun gods

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Command Performance

With U.S. forces in Korea beleaguered and demoralized in 1950, American prestige and the future of South Korea hung in the balance

David Halberstam in 1978

Consequential

Cold winters, hot jaguars and a night to remember

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November Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable

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How Pan Am’s Founder Juan Trippe Turned Americans Into Frequent Fliers

This antique globe was once owned by the fabled airline executive, who ushered in modern air travel

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