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May 2008
This month uncover forgotten treasures, explore dynamic cityscapes, and witness breathtaking portraits of Earth. |
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In This Edition
• Pictures: China's New Great Walls
• #1 Wallpaper: Monarch Butterfly
• Gallery: Exquisite Earth
• Photos: "Nuked" Corals Flourish
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True or false? Colonies of porites coral can grow up to 26 feet (8 meters). (See answer at bottom.) |
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Pictures: China's New Great Walls |
| With the Olympics looming, China is turning Beijing into perhaps the largest construction zone in history—and pushing architecture to its limits for a giant coming-out party. |
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Monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles for this month's best wallpaper. |
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| Photo Quiz |
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This 900-mile (1,450-kilometer) arc of 76 sparsely populated atolls and two islands is one of the world's primary producers of cultured black pearls.
Where is it?
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| Gallery: New York City |
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| Follow Traveler magazine through New York City and catch lofty views of the Empire State Building and a peek at stoic Lady Liberty. |
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| National Geographic Adventure Magazine |
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| Forgotten Treasures of Utah's Range Creek |
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| Rancher and mountain lion trapper Waldo Wilcox kept the country's greatest
open-air museum a secret for 50 years. Now his stash is open to the public,
and pieces of history have started to disappear.
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| Quiz Answer:
True. Huge colonies of porites coral grow up to 26 feet (8 meters) high and flourish in the Bravo Crater in the Marshall Islands' Bikini Atoll. |
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