For over half a century, the federal government has played God with the Big Muddy. Engineers harnessed this once meandering 2,341-mile river with levees and a system of six great dams so that it could do all things for all people. But now, the Army Corps of Engineers, which sets the river's flow, is poised to make changes that could alter life along America's longest river. (Related story)
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
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