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Geography & Travel
Crisis in Gaza Two scholars debate the ongoing fighting in Gaza.
Saint Petersburg (Revised) Peter the Great's "window on Europe" is a mecca of cultural, historical, and architectural landmarks.
Colorado (Revised) Explore the Centennial State, home to Denver, the Mile High city.
West Indies (Featured Hotspot) The island chain provides tropical warmth to winter vacationers.
Science & Technology
You're Being Watched! Prediction: Everything you say and do will be recorded by 2030.
Ebola (In the News) Health officials are monitoring an outbreak in Congo's Kasai-Occidental province.
virtual community (New) Explore with Howard Rheingold, who coined the term and is the author of Britannica's new article.
Galileo (Popular Search) Four hundred years ago his findings contradicted Aristotelian physics.
AIDS (Popular Search) The disease has killed some 25 million in the last three decades.
Brad Pitt (In the News) The sexy actor is star of the hit The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Eartha Kitt (In the News) Britannica looks back on the life of the sultry-voiced American singer.
The Lone Ranger (New) "Hi-yo Silver" was a familiar phrase of the fictional renegade lawman.
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