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Pg… 4 Editor’s Note
Pg… 9 Windows Dust Bowl Update
Pg… 16 Letters
Pg… 19 Portrait: Ted Kennedy By Loudon Wainwright
Pg… 22 Putting People Back Together With miniature tools and a microscope, a surgical team works for 16 hours to save a severed limb
Pg… 31 Backstairs at Blair House When foreign dignitaries come to visit, they feel at home in a historic Washington residence
Pg… 37 The Amazing Alicia Though over 60 and partially blind, Cuba’s prima ballerina Alonso is still going strong
Pg… 45 His Baa Is Worse than His Bite On American sheep farms, some Old World breeds of dogs are helping to ward off predators
Pg… 53 Lickety–split Siblings Two American speed skaters, who happen to be brother and sister, are streaking toward the Olympics
Pg… 58 The Equator Surprising extremes of weather and terrain are found along the line that girdles the earth at latitude zero
Pg… 73 China’s Lost Legions Buried by the first emperor of China, a battalion of terracotta soldiers is unearthed after 2,200 years
Pg… 78 Prison Without Stripes Innovative reforms at Walla Walla bring freedom?and a troubling violence?to maximum–security inmates
Pg… 90 Getting High Veteran and rookie climbers scale the sheer cliffs of Colorado By James Salter
Pg… 101 A Talent You’ll Be Hearing From An affecting young actress makes a name for herself in John Schlesinger’s Yanks
Pg… 104 Life Around the World Maimed Children of Civil War in Nicaragua
Pg… 106 Life Around the World Kidnap Victim Comes Home
Pg… 108 Life Around the World A Long White Summer for KKK Kids
Pg… 110 Life Around the World Portrait of an Irish Bomb Blast
Pg… 112 Just One More
