It may look fuzzy and adorable but this New Zealand bird is one tough customer
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The Federal Writers' Project gave Depression-era writers a second chance...and America its first comprehensive self-portrait
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MASS MoCA, the nation's newest and largest center for the contemporary arts, has brought a blue-collar New England town back to the future
The author, who according to family legend is a direct descendant of Myles Standish, surveys the checkered career of his pugnacious Pilgrim ancestor
America's only commercial tea crop is grown on an island with plants more than a century old
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A good read gives mothers and daughters much more to talk about than just the plot
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A Smithsonian anthropologist digs for victims of a West Virginia mob murder
For the National Zoological Park, an artist depicts the diversity of the islands' extinct avian species
In California's Long Valley, the earth trembles every day where a volcano once exploded
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Closely watched by their guides and military escort, harried biologists survey the wild things that survive there
At his laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, researcher Mark Tilden creates machines that march to the beat of a different drummer
They're slimy, snaky, ugly and repulsive, but once you acquire a taste for this much-maligned species, "slippery as an eel" becomes a compliment
In Washington County, Vermont, prosecutors face mounting caseloads, looming deadlines and ongoing drama
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As underwater archaeologists pull artifacts from what may be the wreck of Blackbeard's flagship, historians raise new questions about the legendary pirate
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