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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Visions of Space | |
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| The Believer from GQ | |
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| One Giant Leap to Nowhere from The New York Times | |
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| The Missions of Astronomy from The New York Review of Books | |
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| Cosmic Vision from National Geographic | |
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| Seeking New Earths from National Geographic | |
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| Neurology Displacing Molecular Biology | |
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| Don't! from The New Yorker | |
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| Out of the Past from Discover | |
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| Brain Games from The New Yorker | |
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| Natural Beauty | |
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| The Alpha Accipiter from Minnesota Conservation Volunteer | |
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| Flight of the Kuaka from Living Bird | |
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| Modern Darwins from National Geographic | |
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| The Superior Civilization from The New York Review of Books | |
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| Still Blue from National Geographic | |
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| The Lazarus Effect from Discover | |
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| Darwin's First Clues from National Geographic | |
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| The Environment: Gloom and Doom | |
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| All You Can Eat from Orion | |
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| A Formula for Disaster from Wired | |
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| Not So Silent Spring from Conservation Magazine | |
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| The Catastrophist from The New Yorker | |
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| The Sixth Extinction? from The New Yorker | |
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| The Environment: Small Blessings | |
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| Scraping Bottom from National Geographic | |
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| A Life of Its Own from The New Yorker | |
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| Purpose-Driven Life from The American Scholar | |
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| The Monkey and the Fish from The New Yorker | |
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| The Environment: Big Blessings | |
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| Graze Anatomy from OnEarth | |
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| Hearth Surgery from The New Yorker | |
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| Green Giant from The New Yorker | |
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| India, Enlightened from OnEarth | |
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| Contributors' Notes | |
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| Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2009 | |