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Photography — From the April 2012 issue
Easy chair — From the February 2011 issue
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Article — From the June 1992 issue
Less is once again more or less the most
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A new U.S. immigration policy opens doors for the world’s wealthiest
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Percentage by which the risk of type 2 diabetes increases for every two hours a day that a person watches television:

Two bottled ghosts—of an old man and a young girl—were sold at auction in New Zealand.

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