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Essays Made Easy
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Essays Made Easy

Skate Date
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Skate Date

Amy's Legacy
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Amy's Legacy

Obsession
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Obsession

Bookstore Birthday
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Bookstore Birthday

The Millionaires Next Door
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The Millionaires Next Door

They started in a garage, of course. And the six young founders of Silicon Valley's Excite Inc. remain regular guys.

by Tia O'Brien

Pioneer In the Sky
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Pioneer In the Sky

Adventurer Steve Fosset has a lofty ambition: to circle the globe by balloon. He'll try again next winter.

by Jackie Krentzman

Crossing to Motherhood
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Crossing to Motherhood

Should I have a baby? A writer wrestles with her decision--and then with the reality of infertility.

by Paulette Bates Alden

The Making of Project M
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The Making of Project M

They called it the Monster: a two-mile linear accelerator designed to study the basic building blocks of matter. Forty years later, physicist Wolfgang Panofsky recalls the drama surrounding the creation of SLAC.

by Bernard Butcher