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An Amazon Preserve
What immediately strikes a newcomer upon entering the forest is how noisy it is, and how dark, beneath the canopy. Late last summer, I found myself standing in a preserve, a few hours drive from Manaus, Brazil in “continuous forest” which stretches for
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What Bodies?
Leon Daniel, as did others who reported from Vietnam during the 1960s, knew about war and death. So he was puzzled by the lack of corpses at the tip of the Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia and Iraq on Feb. 25, 1991. Clearly
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Belly of the Beast
On a broad and shallow lake situated in the middle of a vast oil field north of the city of Surgut in northwestern Siberia, a Khanty (han-tee) fisherman poles his battered metal boat — an old Russian motorboat sans the motor — across
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The Dailiness of Life: One Man’s Struggle With Mental Illness
“As the sun was setting it was fucking eerie, very unnerving, nothing has changed. The neighborhood’s still the same.” Eighteen years ago, I began shooting a 20-year documentary about my Uncle Charlie and the rest of my Brooklyn family. This no-holds-barred photographic epic
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Haitian-Americans: Their Search for Political Identity in South Florida
Phillip Brutus insists he isn’t nervous, but there is an anxious edge to him on this first day of the Florida legislative session. It’s there, in his clipped conversations and his hurried gait as he walks the halls of the State House, shaking
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A Son Confronts Oil Poverty in the Niger Delta
“As much money as they take out of here, this place should look like New York,” Ken Wiwa says, gesturing at the passing landscape as his car, chauffeured by his father’s driver, Sonny, speeds southeast from Port Harcourt towards Ogoniland along the area’s
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Hispanic Workers Health Needs are Overwhelming Southern Poultry Towns
Everyone’s time is set to four thirty in the afternoon in Siler City, North Carolina. It’s the hour when everyone comes home. Children come home from school and toss their backpacks on the floor. Parents come home from the chicken plants and leave
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The Future of Bonobos: An Animal Akin to Ourselves
Human tragedies often reverberate in unexpected ways, threatening environmental destruction and endangering other species. Consider the unfolding tragedy of the Congo, where continued fighting has caused the deaths of more than 1.7 million people in the past two years. Caught in the merciless
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When the Sea Calls
Douglas Goodale, by the age of 32, had eight years of commercial fishing experience behind him when his job literally took his right arm and very nearly his life. Goodale was working by himself on his 22-foot purple lobster boat, “Barney,” about one
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A Museum In Black and White
In the mythology of the Underground Railroad, the Ohio River has a sacramental status. Crossing it transformed slaves into free men and women. The alchemy was imperfect, to be sure: Under federal law, slaves in the North remained property and could be recaptured.
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Look Over Here
Few American presidents projected the image of Commander-In-Chief more than Ronald Reagan. He snapped salutes at Marine honor guards around the White House with the skill of a Washington, Grant or Eisenhower. While those presidents learned on the battlefield, Reagan was trained by
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Convicting the Wrong Man: Part One of Two
Maybe a detective lied on the witness stand. Or a prosecutor played games with the evidence. A snitch could have testified falsely after getting a sweet deal on his own case. Maybe a defense lawyer was incompetent. He even could have been napping
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Fighting Battles for Grizzlies
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK–For 20 seasons, the simple life was its own reward for Bob Jackson, the only resident law enforcement officer in the most remote wilderness outpost of the lower 48 states–this park’s Thorofare district. Ranger Bob Jackson, who patrols on horseback, says
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A Land of Madrassahs
The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America has focused world attention on Peshawar, from where U.S. military strikes could still come. Peshawar — only thirteen miles southeast of the Khyber Pass, with Afghanistan beyond — is a rugged, lawless place, riven by
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Secrets of Aging Well in Norway
Cruising the Norwegian coastline in September is a way of buying time, of getting my emotional and geographic bearings before reentering Shangri-la. That’s how I remember Stryn, the pastoral idyll deep within the shrouded glacial mists of the Nordfjord, Norway, discovered via seaplane,
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Norway: Scandinavian country a majestic jewel by land and by sea
The Post and Courier Charleston, South Carolina Sunday, December 30, 2001 ARTS & TRAVEL, front page Sometimes you need to see a place from a different perspective to better appreciate its history and culture. That is true of Charleston as you glimpse
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Haitian-American Politics in Chicago
CHICAGO – A lazy, humid afternoon in the Windy City. Unity Radio is on the air. The topic? Politics. The opinions? Endless. Today’s subject is the controversial presidential elections of last fall. The amateur commentators trade political views like sports announcers rattling off
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When the Crunch Becomes the Norm: Cries from Inside the 24-Hour Work Clock
According to no end of authorities extrapolating forward from the trends of the early 20th century, Americans should be wallowing in free time by now. A four-hour workday, the technocrat Harold Loeb wrote in 1933, would “satisfy fully the material needs of each
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Polish Entrepreneurs after the 1989 Roundtable
Research chemist Malgorzata Dudek had worked for two decades at the technical university in Gliwice and in 1983 decided she wanted to apply that knowledge in a startup business. That proved too daunting. Her own knowledge was not the problem. She knew the
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U.S. Border Wars Show No Signs of Keeping Migrants Out
El Paso, Texas—Wire fencing encases the sides of the Rio Grande where the river slices through El Paso on the U.S. side and Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican side of the border. Its purpose: to keep out illegal migrants who each year routinely
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Another America
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Resettling the Hmong
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The Farm Crisis
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Barry Goldwater’s Curious Campaign
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The Failure of Plenty
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Argentina’s Dirty War
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Life in the Black Belt
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Saving Steel
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Waking up on the Moon: The Hmong in America
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Child Poverty in America: The Homeless Families
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The Origins of Conservative Foreign Policy
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The Modernization of Pepe Lopez
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The Path of Black Political Power
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City Without a Pulse
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Tempting the Medicine Freaks
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Solving the Problem of Meaning
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The Kenilworth Estates
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The Captured Documents
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Rebuilding Bethlehem Steel
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Inventing The SAT
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Thinking About Thinking
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High-Rise Hell
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Dissent in the Foreign Service
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The Demise of Big Steel
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Taking The SAT
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Eurisko, the Computer with a Mind of its Own
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Inside the Manila Embassy
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Schooled for Failure
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Testing Teachers
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The Lure of Artificial Intelligence
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Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Service
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Faces of the 80s
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The Monkey Trial: Round Two
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Bombed, Burned, and Boycotted
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The Law Firm That Asbestos Built
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A Nation In Transition…Farming
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The Politics of Textbooks
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Downwind Deals
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Dark Side of the Chip
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Thought Control
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Separate But Unequal
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Living With Risk
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The Electronic Workplace
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Faces of the 80s America, A Nation in Transition
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The End of the Soviet Empire
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Nothing Fails Like Success
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Looking at the Old South Through Hazel Eyes
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Toxic Torts: Compensating Victims of Hazardous Substances
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Hungary’s Quiet Revolution
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Herbie Redux
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The Modern American Corporation
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Nicaragua’s War of Words
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Back In The USSR
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My Favorite Mobster
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Computer Think
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Plastics Gone Soft
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