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Letter From Mato Grosso — From the June 2013 issue
Will Brazil?s rural poor ever inherit the earth?
Letter from Elkhorn Ranch — From the March 2013 issue
The price of North Dakota???s fracking boom
Letter From Afghanistan — From the December 2012 issue
Cockfighting in the ruins of Kabul
Readings — From the December 2012 issue
Letter From Seattle — From the November 2012 issue
Spiraling downward at the Central Library
Readings — From the June 2012 issue
Readings — From the June 2012 issue
Readings — From the May 2012 issue
Readings — From the March 2012 issue
Article — From the February 2012 issue
Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street
Letter from Lima — From the February 2012 issue
Election night in Peru’s largest prison

Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device:

A reduction in distrust toward atheists was documented among pious Canadians who are reminded of the Vancouver police.

A Missouri cinema apologized for hiring an actor dressed in body armor and carrying a fake rifle to appear at a screening of Iron Man 3.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”