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From the Current Issue
Passing the Torch
Why the eons-old truce between humans and fire has burst
into an age of megafires, and what can be done about it
By Stephen J. Pyne
The Olympics traditionally open with a fire ceremony. A torch kindled by
natural sources (the sun reflects off a mirror onto the torch), and hence
a pure fire, is passed from Olympia, the site of the ancient games, to
wherever the modern games are to take place. Last year, nature seemed
determined to return the gesture, as record-shattering blazes swept over
Greece and even reached the ruins of Olympia itself.
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 Nick Bromell
follows Frederick
Douglass down the
path from emotion
to liberal principle
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After a mother's
death, Janna
Malamud Smith
explores life
as a castaway
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Brian Boyd
tells us why
reading is
both an art
and a science
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Web exclusive:
Brian Doyle
meets the
Marvelous
Marvin Hagler
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