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Features
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Reconstructing Petra
Two thousand years ago, it was the capital of a powerful trading empire. Now archaeologists are piecing together a picture of Jordan's compelling rock city
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Prize Pictures
Our photo contest attracted thousands of photographers from 86 nations. And the winners are...
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Jewel of the Tetons
This summer, the Rockefellers are donating a final 1,106 acres, a spectacular parcel to be open to the public for the first time in 75 years
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Into the Fold
Physicist Robert Lang has taken the ancient art of origami to new dimensions
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Scripture Alfresco
450-year-old paintings on the exterior of monasteries and churches-now open again for worship-tell vivid tales of saints and prophets, heaven and hell
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The Ethiopia Campaign
After fighting neglected diseases in Africa for a quarter century, former president Jimmy Carter takes on one of the continent's biggest killers malaria
Departments
Endless Summers
For almost 50 years, surfing legend LeRoy Grannis has been shooting the curl
Fields of Dreams
To help revive his North Dakota hometown, a former high-school principal created giant sculptures to grace a stretch of prairie highway
Risks and Riddles
The Soviet Union was a puzzle. Al Qaeda is a mystery. Why we need to know the difference
Interview: May Berenbaum
On the role of cellphones, pesticides and alien abductions in the honeybee crisis
Flights of Fancy
Leslie Payne's flying machines soared, if only in his imagination