In 1950 Field Museum anthropologist Paul Martin hit the motherlode: a dry cave in New Mexico that hid tens of thousands of artifacts of a little-known Native American culture. Most of them are still in storage at the museum, waiting for someone to unlock
Author Archives: Kitry Krause
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The City Hall Shuffle
“I just hand out forms. I’m not supposed to hand out advice.”
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Reader to Reader
Behind her booth at the Custer Street fair in Evanston a potter had set three bushel baskets full of pots she’d marked down. “There’s nothing wrong with them,” she said. “I just need to make space.” Two boys, maybe seven or eight years old, walked up and started picking through the pots. Suddenly one of […]
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War: What It’s Good For
In the endless debate over war in Iraq, we seem to have forgotten something: Saddam Hussein is killing and torturing his own people.
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Borrowed Time/Nowhere To Hide
Intensive Probation Offers Kids in Trouble One Last chance to Stay Out of Jail.
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Deaf Trip
Bill Graham spent 20 years learning to live with his deafness. Could he learn to live without it?
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Day in Court
It’s late morning at the Cook County Circuit Court Building in Skokie. In one of the small courtrooms along the broad center hallway a few people sit quietly in clusters on wooden pews, waiting for their cases to be called. Near the front of the room a black Chicago cop is lying back in his […]
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Mixed Blessing
A priest is coming to say evening mass at Riem Nguyen’s new house. It’s good luck, says Riem. He’s bought 25 white plastic lawn chairs for the occasion and packed them into the small living room. A few people are already seated, fanning themselves in the heat. His mother is in the steamy kitchen with […]
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Art People: how Hiep Le shaped a new life
Hiep Le’s left hand curls around the base of the spinning lump of wet clay. His right presses hard across the top, cords of muscle rising along his thin forearm. His hands wobble on the uneven clay, then steady as it centers on the wheel. He drives his thumbs into the middle of the mound, […]
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Dangerous Enemy Alien
Thousands of Germans were interned by the U.S. Government during World War II. At age 17, Eberhard Fuhr became one of them.
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On the Streets Where Syphilis Lives
Tracking the Epidemic One Name at a Time
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Waiting for the Sun
After a decade of bad luck, broken promises, and stupid government policy, a few lonely researchers prepare for the third boom in solar energy.
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The Photovoltaic Sell
“It’s a big event anytime the sun comes out, so we bring everything up,” says Paul Collard dryly, tipping his head toward makeshift wooden tables covered with wires, monitors, and a nine-inch-square plastic lens mounted on a stand. “By the time we get it all set up, the sun’s gone.” But not today. A faint […]