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3 picks · 1987–1991

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THE BEES FROM RIO CLARO
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Africanized honeybees in Brazil. The first bees originated outside the city of Rio Claro. In the fall of 1956 a Brazilian …

Her Deepness
profiles ·

Wallace White’s 1989 Profile of the marine biologist and explorer Sylvia Earle.

THE BIG SINGING
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about the Big Singing, in Benton, Kentucky, an annual assemblage of members of that community at whichhymns & other songs from a …