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What are the five best environmental movies of all time? answer

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What kind of dog will make me look manlier? answer
Is there a sport that safely combines my twin passions for guns and kayaks? answer
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Dispatches: News from the Field

Mountaineering: It Came from Rockford
High-altitude mutant Ed Viesturs's careful assault on the top of the world
By Andrew Tilin

Skating: The Way We Swerved
An Oregon pair finds love--and pain--in the time of urethane
By Bill Donahue

Communications: Talk Alien to Me
An Everyman's plan to mingle with the stars
By Paul Kvinta

Watch Your Backside, Fido...
But fear for your life, O woolly mammoth
By Michael Finkel

Adventure: Nicotine Wishes and Cabernet Dreams
Greetings from the Raid Gauloises, where we think you'd agree, it's very good to be French
By Martin Dugard

Anthropology: Tiptoe Through the Turmoil
Is scientific colonialism alive and well in Tanzania?
By Kiki Yablon

Dispatches: For the Record
By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta (with Brian Alexander and Steve Law)