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Wired January 2004 Ken Jordan	The Click Heard Round The World 15 years before the Mac, he demo'd the future of computing. Doug Engelbart tells the author what it felt like to launch the point-and-click revolution.
World War II Billy A. Rea	Lost at Sea World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker and six others survived 21 days in the Pacific after ditching their B-17.
World War II David H. Lippman	First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Like weary boxers, the opposing forces slugged it out with one another in Ironbottom Sound.
World War II David H. Lippman	Turning Point in the Pacific The Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal spelled the difference between victory and defeat for the United States in the Pacific war.
World War II John Wukovits	Battle of Rennell Island: Setback in the Solomons The tactical judgment of Admiral Robert C. Giffen may have contributed to the loss of the cruiser USS Chicago.
World War II Williamson Murray	Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe.
Vietnam	Desperate Hours During Tet: Inside MACV Headquarters As General William Westmoreland's chief of staff at the time of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Maj. Gen. Walter 'Dutch' Kerwin had a key seat with the military inner circle during one of the most critical events of the war.
Vietnam Kevin D. Randle	Tet 1969 at Cu Chi One year after the infamous Tet Offensive of 1968, Communist forces tried it again.
Reason January 2004 Julian Sanchez	Raw Deal Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely credited with saving America from economic ruin. But Jim Powell's new book, FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, promises to send FDR's inflated reputation crashing like a stock on Black Monday.
Military History Joe Bageant	War at the Top of the World For more than a decade, CIA training and airdrops helped hard-fighting Tibetan forces resist the Communist Chinese in a little-known 'war at the roof of the world.'
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