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April 2000
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Features
Reading the Messages in Everyday Things
As an inspired observer of landscapes urban and rural, historian John Stilgoe teaches us all to see with new eyes
Requiem for a Middleweight
College boxer Charlie Mohr of Wisconsin was a champion in and out of the ring, but why he died remains controversial
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Bone Specialist On Call
A Smithsonian anthropologist applies his expertise to cases of missing children and disaster victims
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Evidence for a Flood
Sediment layers suggest that 7,500 years ago Mediterranean water roared into the Black Sea
Wanted, Dead or Alive
When scientists go scavenging at a bioblitz, anything they can find that's organic is considered fair game
The Biggest One That Didn't Get Away
A real fish tale hangs on a monster marlin caught nearly a half-century ago
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