Where Are They Now?
Acid rain, Bubble Boy, Barbie’s boy toy, the Concorde—there’s enough material here for Billy Joel to write at least three sequels to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” In this special report, Maggie Koerth-Baker time-machines her way into history to find out why everything old (like New Math) is new again—or if not new, at least interesting.

features:
• 13 Photographs That Changed The World
• Hail To The Thieves! Famous Heists We Love

And feel smart about:
• Masterpieces: Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building
• Mad Scientist of the Month: Ray Kurzweil
• 50-Cent Tour: Nigeria
• Crude Awakenings: How one African author took on shell oil (and changed the face of nigerian politics)
• Culture of Corruption

+ a "Medicine" scatterbrained, a Know-It-All's look at the letter L, a 25-question quiz to end all quizzes, and more!