In December 2015, Nolen Gertz wrote about adults' identities and the action figures they grew up with.
In July 2013, Megan Garber wrote about the dangers astronauts face when spacewalking.
The year you were born, Robert Manning wrote about his 1954 visit with the Nobel Prize–winning author Ernest Hemingway in Havana, Cuba.
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Grease was released in 1978.
In July 2012, Megan Garber wrote about Ride's legacy, shortly after the later died.
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“It was thought that all borders between men had similarly disintegrated, and we were all destined to be free and empowered individuals in a global meeting place,” wrote Robert Kaplan 20 years later.
In October 2015, Adrienne LaFrance wrote about the disappearance of published content—including a Pulitzer finalist's 34-part investigative series—from the internet.
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In July 2014, Katie Kilkenny wrote about Bay's willingness to create profit-driven movies.
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People across the world rediscovered the power and peril of revolutions, as Laura Kasinof found in Yemen.
In February 2012, Charles A. Kupchan wrote about the world's emerging economies, and how the world will look by 2050.
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