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Weekly Review — October 30, 2007, 12:00 am

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By Claire Gutierrez

An American cattleman. Wildfires spread from north of Los Angeles to south of San Diego, killing at least seven people, consuming more than 1,800 homes, burning a half-million acres, setting Camp Pendleton afire, forcing about 300,000 San Diego residents to evacuate, and prompting California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare seven counties disaster areas and to mobilize the National Guard. At the Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, typically home to the Chargers but a place of refuge for 20,000 evacuees during the fires, an air-conditioned medical tent was erected, a cell-phone provider offered free calls to anywhere in the United States, …

Weekly Review — February 21, 2006, 12:00 am

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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called for the United States to increase its propaganda efforts in the Middle East,BBC Newsas riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed. In Volgograd, Russia, officials closed the city newspaper after it published a cartoon that showed Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, and Buddha watching TV together. Fifteen thousand people protested the cartoons in London. “We have to speak up,” said a Muslim …

Weekly Review — April 13, 2004, 12:00 am

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By Roger D. Hodge

Caught in the Web. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testified publicly and under oath before the commission investigating September 11; Rice acknowledged that President Bush had received a classified CIA briefing on August 6, 2001, entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,” though she characterized the report as “historical information based on old reporting.” She also acknowledged that the report mentioned the existence of Al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States but “there was no recommendation that we do something about this.” Rice also admitted that Richard Clarke, whose book on the Bush Administration’s antiterrorism failures …

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Cold comfort

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Looking for the sun in Greenland’s endless night

By Gretel Ehrlich

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By Galen A. Rowell (Photographer)

Readings — From the January 1990 issue

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By Lynn Davis (Photographer)

Article — From the November 1979 issue

Shades of Greenland

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By Simon Winchester

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Should we buy Greenland?

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By Earl Parker Hanson

Article — From the January 1928 issue

The “blond” Eskimos

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By Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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Nearest the North Pole

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First complete report of the Peary Arctic Club’s latest expedition (concluded)

By Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

Article — From the February 1907 issue

Nearest the North Pole

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First complete report of the Peary Arctic Club’s latest expedition

By Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

Article — From the January 1872 issue

A visit to a Greenland glacier

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By I.I. (Isaac Israel) Hayes

Article — From the December 1871 issue

The old Norse colonies of Greenland

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Article — From the May 1864 issue

Life with the Esquimaux

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By William Parker Snow

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Bellot. His adventures and death in the Arctic regions

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How to Make Your Own AR-15

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Long Division

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The Separating Sickness

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Introducing the June Issue of Harper’s Magazine

Why the AR-15 rifle is here to stay,
the conspiracy theories of Room 237,
and more

By Ellen Rosenbush

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On Gun Control and Collective Rights

The firearm as emblem of personal sovereignty

“Let’s review our recent national paroxysm about guns, shall we?”

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How to Make Your Own AR-15

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“Even if federal gun-control advocates got everything they wanted, they couldn’t prevent America’s most popular rifle from being made, sold, and used. Understanding why this is true requires an examination of how the firearm is made.”

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Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007)

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Wherein the author enrolls in a clinical drug trial

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“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”

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Broken Heartland

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By Wil S. Hylton

“During the early 1990s, farmers throughout the Great Plains began to notice a decline in their wells. Irrigation systems from the Dakotas to Texas dipped, and, in some places, have been abandoned entirely.”

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Amount of cash CNN reporter Peter Arnett says he wore sewn into his clothes while covering the Gulf War:

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A woman testified that prostitutes at the “bunga bunga” parties thrown by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had dressed up as President Obama.

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