An unprecedented effort to reclaim the ancient temples from the Cambodian jungle is racing against a tourist onslaught
The Navy is gone; the bombing has stopped. What happens to Puerto Rico's Vieques now?
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A Somali Bantu refugee family leaves 19th-century travails behind in Africa to take up life in 21st-century Phoenix
The Polar Inuit's bond with the sled dog remains intact, thanks to a ban on snowmobiles. But the lure of technology threatens these "magnificent animals"
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The world's most heartfelt wishes find their way to a post office near Rovaniemi, Finland
The Los Angeles County Morgue sells ghoulish souvenirs for a good cause
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Flight instructor Craig Fuller scales mountains, combs deserts and trudges through wilderness to track down old airplane wrecks
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The Persian Gulf kingdom has embraced openness and capitalism. Might other Mideast nations follow?
Some things do get better
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In the new Boston Harbor Islands national park area, city dwellers can escape the madding crowds
Fifty years after the armistice, the two Koreas' legacy of conflict underlies a deepening crisis
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the New York State legislature set aside the land that would become Central Park
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Tiny frogs. Vast swamps. Pristine rivers. Whether by design or default, the island boasts the Caribbean's best-kept wildlands. But for how long?
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Searching for the past on the eve of St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary, a former foreign correspondent finds the future
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A witness to the first ascent of Mount Everest recalls Edmund Hillary's aplomb, Tenzing Norgay's grace and other glories of the "last earthly adventure"
People say the darndest things. At least I think they do
In Charleston, South Carolina, shipwrights re-create a 19th-century schooner
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The prospect of a tourist bonanza from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania excites some Romanians, but opponents see only red
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Quelle surprise! Englishman Derek Brown presides over France's prestigious Michelin guide to haute cuisine
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The first major exhibition devoted to the Incas' fabled cold-weather retreat highlights Machu Picchu's secrets
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