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Features
Raiders or Traders?
A replica Viking vessel plying the North Sea this month is part of an effort to learn more about what the Norsemen were really up to

From his bench toward the stern of the Sea Stallion From Glendalough, Erik Nielsen could see his crewmates' stricken faces peeping out of bright-red survival suits. A few feet behind him, the leather straps holding the ship's rudder to its side had snapped. The 98-foot vessel, a nearly $2.5 million replica of a thousand-year-old Viking ship, was rolling helplessly atop waves 15 feet high.

With the wind gusting past 50 miles an hour and the Irish Sea just inches from the gunwales, "I thought we'd be in the drink for sure," says Nielsen, 61, a retired geologist from Toronto. ...

Precarious Lebanon
Stricken by sectarian warfare and still reeling from the 2005 murder of its former Prime Minister, the Mediterranean nation brokers a fragile peace

Welcome to Your World
This year's photo contest winners reflect decidedly international points of view

John Muir's Yosemite
The father of the conservation movement found his calling on a visit to the California wilderness

The Great Human Migration
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world

True Colors
Call them gaudy, call them kitsch, but archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target

Silken Treasure
The Italian city of Como, celebrated for its silk and scenery, has inspired notables from Leonardo da Vinci and Giuseppe Verdi to Winston Churchill and George Clooney

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