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Yes, he wrote the plays. No, he didn’t have such a huge vocabulary.

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They’re just so cuddly and docile, right?

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Air tankers dropping 11,000-gallon loads of blood-red fire retardant on flames look great on the nightly news. So do drones mapping a fire’s active edges with infrared cameras. But the boots-on-the-g...

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It’s not completely Hindu, and it’s not completely secular.

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Popular depictions of coal focus on its polluting qualities: blighted landscapes, black lungs and smokestacks belching out toxic clouds that cause acid rain. News coverage of the industry typically sp...

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Did it really end World War II? And did it save half a million American lives?

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July is hotter than August in D.C. And the humidity has nothing to do with swamps.

Despite what you’ve heard, they don’t have to keep swimming, and they do get cancer.

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Who really said “Let them eat cake”? And what actually happened at the Bastille?

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They didn’t want a secular nation, and they weren’t above partisanship.

Who watches them, anyway?

He’s just not conservative enough for GOP voters — right?

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With “Jurassic World” about to eat the competition alive, it’s time to look back to 1975 when Stephen Spielberg unleashed the first big summer blockbuster, “Jaws.” Or did he?

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For all of its ubiquity, sunscreen is often misused. Dispelling these common misconceptions could help you protect yourself.

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The technology isn’t new, but it’s at the cutting edge of our debate about policing.

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All we need to do is build more roads and raise the speed limits, right?

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Does Letterman’s retirement mark the end of the golden age?

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It’s not mostly tied to family history.

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Do they accomplish anything? And are outsiders always to blame?

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It involves more than elephants, and it goes beyond China.

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