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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 3, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

The House Where Darwin Lived

Charles Darwin lived with his wife, children and servants in Down House, a Georgian manor 15 miles south of London in the Kent countryside, for 40 years—from 1842 to 1882. Like all close-knit…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 24, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3423 words)

Battleground America

Every American can be his own policeman; the country has nearly as many guns as it has people. Photograph by Christopher Griffith.
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1042 words)

Homs, city of torture

In Bashar al-Assad's Syria, it is not just forbidden to speak, demonstrate and protest: it is also forbidden both to give medical treatment, and to receive treatment yourself. Since the beginning of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1868 words)
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