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A soccer star kicks trash

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Everyone who goes to war comes home transformed. Two young veterans write about adventures that helped them figure out what changed.

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Here's how to get there

The head of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team is just a scientist trying to do his job (probably).

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Laotians live and die among 80 million unexploded munitions, many of them as dangerous as the day they dropped from the sky

A Great Plains native finds his way home

Snowboarding icon Jeremy Jones climbs his way to the top—and hopes others will follow

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Celebrating 50 years of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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