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A sailboat floats at the dock. From the Annapolis harbor, it's only a couple of miles to the wide open Chesapeake Bay.

Life Aquatic

The sailing world docks in Annapolis

The site covers some 80,000 acres. UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1983.

Saving Machu Picchu

Will the opening of a bridge give new life to the surrounding community or further encroach upon the World Heritage Site?

"We can no longer work in Iraq," says Haidar Hilou, an award-winning screenwriter.

Welcome to Rawda

Iraqi artists find freedom of expression at this Syrian café

The cover of Superman (vol. 1) #296 (February 1976). Art by Bob Oksner

Don’t Try To Be A Hero

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EcoCenter: Greener Living

Smithsonian.com takes a look at common and easy ways to go green

Matthew Barney

A Secret Performance

Francis Bacon’s Studio, photograph, c. 1975

Bringing Home the Bacon

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Still Life in Motion

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Statue of Liberty-West

Lawler, upriver from Alexandria in the Sudan: "The feeling of Alexandria was more evocative of the ancient world than anywhere else."

City of the Imagination

Andrew Lawler, author of “Raising Alexandria” talks about the hidden history of Egypt’s fabled seaside capital

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Ape tools, flying dinosaurs and emperor penguins

May 6, 2006: Barbaro, with Edgar Prado aboard, nears the finish of the Kentucky Derby. He won the "Run for the Roses" by six and a half lengths, the largest margin in 60 years.

Barbaro’s Legacy

The effort to save the fallen champion shows how far equine medicine has come in recent years. And how far it still has to go

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