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Under Fire • How our beloved Smokey Bear has become a lightning rod in a heated environmental debate

Slogans’ Heroes • WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GETS INTO CARTOONING, YOU KNOW THERE’S TROUBLE

BEAUTIFUL BLUNDERS • Photographs that make the most of getting it wrong

Sweet Science • Archaeologists are discovering that two of the world’s most prized flavors have a much richer history than we thought

Yesterday’s Specials • Archaeologists are discovering that two of the world’s most prized flavors have a much richer history than we thought

A Lost Work by Langston Hughes • In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now

FOREWORD FROM LIFE

You Tunes • Singing the praises of the Walkman, which launched the revolution in self-centered music 40 years ago

Air Apparent • AN ELECTRIFYING HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR INVISIBLE INSTRUMENT

A NEW VISION OF THE HOLY LAND • WITH CONFLICT RAGING AGAIN IN ISRAEL, A FEARLESS INITIATIVE REVEALS A COMPLEX REALITY THAT FEW VISITORS EVER SEE

SPEED DEMONS • A BLAZING NITROMETHANEFUELED AMERICAN TALE OF RACING GLORY, MURDER AND A SON’S PURSUIT OF HIS FATHER’S UNFINISHED LEGACY

THE CHROME JEWELS • FROM HOT RODS TO LOWRIDERS, TODAY’S SHOW-CAR ROYALTY REINVENTS THE WHEEL

Snake Landia • BOUNTY HUNTERS AND BIOLOGISTS WADE DEEP INTO THE EVERGLADES TO WRESTLE WITH THE INVASION OF GIANT PYTHONS THREATENING FLORIDA’S WETLANDS

GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS • THE MYSTERIOUS BEAUTY OF THE WORLD THAT INSPIRED THE STARK LYRICISM OF ROBERT FROST

MELVILLE’S Lost Paradise • MY IMPROBABLE VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF THE MISUNDERSTOOD AUTHOR OF AMERICA’S GREATEST EPIC ADVENTURE

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