10 Sergio Ramírez: Between Reality and Fiction by Enriqueta Cabrera
The one-time vice president of Nicaragua talks about Latin America's greatest surprises, the revolution that crossed his path, and what we can learn from the animal kingdom

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16 A Mind in Motion  by K. Mitchell Snow
Venezuelan artist Pancho Quilici is on a journey to uncover the mechanism of thought 

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24  Comeback Island by Suzanne Murphy-Larronde
After two devastating hurricane seasons, the Caribbean island of Grenada attempts a spirited recovery

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30 Reviving the Romance of the Rails    by Mark Holston    
Thanks to a major government initiative, Chile's once-esteemed railway system is beginning to relieve its glory days, with a strikingly modern image

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40 Home on the Range? by Judy Waytiuk
On the North American high plains, ranchers and conservationalists are trying to bring back the magnificent bison, which once roamed these lands in enormous herds

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48 Unraveling an Inca Mystery by Chris Hardman             
In the Andes, a burial-site discovery of knotted string called khipu has experts wondering what the ancients were trying to tell us