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January 1998

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Features

Roll Over, Beethoven

When Paul McCartney founded the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, he created a place where aspiring stars can learn 21st-century survival skills

Stamps,— What an Idea!

New commemoratives look like our first stamps, which were slow to catch on in 1847

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

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