Shadows on the Rock
Spain wants Gibraltar; the people of the Rock hate the very idea; England is caught in the middle
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Mark Catesby
Both Audubon and Linnaeus were indebted to this intrepid British limner of the New World
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A Gift of a Garden
Green activist Dan Barker is seeding many lives with hope
Planets Around Other Stars Are Hot Hot Hot
Suddenly we find that lots of nearby stars have their own planets, even though so far we can “see” only the giants
Here, Birds Are Unafraid
Galápagos seabirds tolerate human spectators, and crabs in Panama ignore cars (but hide from trucks)
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Fake & Rake
Played for love or played for money, poker is coming out of the back room
Tree Houses Take a Bough
It used to be kid stuff, but these days more and more adults are building in trees to get high
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George C. Marshall The Last Great American?
No soldier since Washington has had his Roman virtues, and so significantly shaped a peace
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