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Art & Culture

Oliver Stone’s 1987 Wall Street succeeded brilliantly in capturing a culture, and failed miserablyas a call for change. To the director’s dismay, thousands of financial hotshots dreamed of becoming Gordon Gekko—and the rest is recent history. Antici

Why gay couples have more equality and less tension at home--but still split up more often than straight pairs

While Michael Douglas reprises his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko, he is also focused on another sequel: the successive father-son problems that have wounded three generations of Douglases. The author hears how the 65-year-old star made peace with his

Shrimp and Grits

Packaging seeds for seven generations of gardeners

Mary Hartline, Tracy Ashton, Ethan Peck

Berdine's offers a shop back in time

If you think learning foreign idioms is easy, just try combing the giraffe

Readers Respond to the February Issue

In 2010, the Institution celebrates two seminal events – the founding of its Natural History Museum and the inauguration of its research in Panama

The marine ecologist and administrator of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration discusses restoring the bounty of the world's oceans

In 1851, Levi Hill claimed he invented color photography. Was he a genius or a fraud?

Why has popular opinion of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland undergone such a dramatic reversal?

Threatened Buddhist art at a 900-year-old monastery high in the Indian Himalayas sheds light on a fabled civilization

Threatened Buddhist art at a 900-year-old monastery high in the Indian Himalayas sheds light on a fabled civilization