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Article — From the February 2012 issue
Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street
Readings — From the December 2011 issue
Article — From the July 2011 issue
Dodging the secret police with the last pollster in Belarus
illustration — From the March 2005 issue
Notebook — From the October 2004 issue
Photography — From the May 2000 issue
Readings — From the November 1998 issue
Readings — From the March 1998 issue
Article — From the January 1995 issue
A report from a Milwaukee abortion clinic, where the crowd outside brandishes the weapons of righteousness and the women inside bear the weight of their choice
Readings — From the September 1988 issue
illustration — From the January 1976 issue
Article — From the March 1968 issue
Article — From the August 1933 issue

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.