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APRIL 2013

Winter Training With U.S. Marines in South Korea

Winter military training with U.S. Marines stationed in South Korea.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Best Advice

The NBA's all-time leading scorer on growing up during the Civil Rights era and why even a big man needs a good left jab.

Laird Hamilton's Morning Ritual

You'll have a better, healthier day if you wake up and follow the big-wave surfer's early AM routine.

Why You Should Get Up Early

The case for starting your day in the dark.

Are Extreme Sports Too Extreme?

Caleb Moore's fatal snowmobile crash at the X Games shows how the rapid growth of action sports is pushing athletes to their limits – sometimes with deadly consequences.

Forgotten Texas

Vast and remote, Big Bend National Park offers otherworldly landscapes, spectacular vistas, and near-complete solitude.

Lindsey Buckingham on Surviving Fleetwood Mac

As Fleetwood Mac kicks off its first tour in four years, Lindsey Buckingham reflects on the band’s drug-fueled nights, blowout fights, and unbreakable bonds.

To Catch (and Release) a Predator With Rachel Graham

Rachel Graham may be the shark's fiercest protector – an Oxford-educated biologist who isn't afraid to wrestle a bull shark into submission or face off with Guatemalan fishermen to learn more about the Earth's most mysterious creatures.

Michael Moss on the Birth of the Triple Double Oreo

A four-year investigation reveals the dirty secrets of processed-food manufacturers.

Joe Maddon, Baseball's Scrappy Genius

With no star players and a budget a third the size of the Yankees', Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon has learned to outthink his rivals to build one of MLB's best teams.

Gordon Ramsay & the Damage Done

The world's most famous chef didn't cut an easy path to glory – dodging an abusive father, then making his name in London's most merciless kitchens. These days, Ramsay is a doting family man and gentler TV presence, but he still answers to the rules of the jungle, where rivals are vanquished and nothing gets in the way of another Michelin star.

MARCH 2013

Return of the Stingray

An early look at the redesigned 2014 Corvette Stingray.

Is Brown Rice Making You Sick?

Some health foods are high in arsenic. Curb your intake now.

Zambia's Great Fruit Bat Migration

Each year, millions of straw-colored fruit bats descend on Zambia's Kasanka National Park during their roughly 2,000-mile migration.

Learning to Kiteboard

In a one-road fishing town in Baja, steady winds, a protected bay, and cheap beer make a kiteboarding mecca.

Steve Jobs's Last Masterpiece

A year after his death, Steve Jobs' yacht – a 257-foot, Philippe Starck-designed, minimalist hunk of aluminum named Venus – is finally finished.

Stewart Brand: The Last Prankster

Stewart Brand was by Ken Kesey's side when things got freaky. Then he stepped off the bus and brought the hippies and the computer geeks together. That's when he really changed the world.

Jim James: No Jacket Required

My Morning Jacket singer-guitarist Jim James cuts loose with a solo album of Southern psychedelia.

Timeless Cool: 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish

The Aston Martin Vanquish has everything those gaudy Euro supercars have – insane power, tons of technical marvels – and something they don't: English style.

The Death of Yosemite's Largest Glacier

Climate change has devastated Yosemite's iconic ice structures. Now the park's largest glacier has stopped moving – marking a new era for the park, and the planet.

Formula 1 Driver Lewis Hamilton Loves America

The British F1 champ knows his sport has a long way to go to compete with NASCAR here in the States, but he seems perfectly happy to spend as much time as it takes to get the word out.

Ayahuasca at Home: An American Experience

A subculture of ayahuasca enthusiasts are bringing herbal "trips" to a city near you.

The Dark Side of Ayahuasca

Every day, hundreds of tourists arrive in Iquitos, Peru, seeking spiritual catharsis or just to trip their heads off. But increasingly often their trip becomes a nightmare, and some of them don't go home at all.

Yellowstone's Wild Gray Wolves

Tracking once-endangered gray wolves through the park's remote and frozen Lamar Valley.

John Miller, CBS's Inside Man

Over the past 20 years, CBS's John Miller has chased as many stories as he has criminals, alternating stints with the NYPD and the FBI with stretches as a TV journalist.

'Doomsday Preppers': The Survivalists Next Door

On the hit show 'Doomsday Preppers,' people are building underground steel bunkers and stockpiling 50,000 pounds of food. Are they crazy – or just prepared?

The Last Word: James Carville

The fiery political strategist explains power, leadership, and why you shouldn't mistake New Orleans for the South.

Rescuing Cesar Millan

The world knew Cesar Millan as the 'Dog Whisperer' – the man who understood everything about the canine mind. But when it came to humans, he had a lot to learn.

FEBRUARY 2013

Bob Bea, the Master of Disaster

Bob Bea, the nation's foremost forensic engineer, is the guy to call when levees break or oil rigs explode – to sift through the wreckage, assign blame, and try to prevent the same mistakes again. (He's still working on that part.)

Eric Ozolins, Shark Wrestler

To help the threatened predators on Texas's Gulf Coast, one fisherman is doing what research scientists can't: catching, tagging, and releasing giant sharks.

Mark Ruffalo's Good Life Formula

How Hollywood's greenest star found peace.

Plus: The New Whiskey Masters

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