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Obesity in America: Photos From the Early Days of a National Health Crisis
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Stars Behind Bars: LIFE With the Prisonaires
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American Atrocity: Remembering My Lai
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LIFE With Michael Caine: Rare Photos, 1966
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Bigotry in the USA: Photos From a Ku Klux Klan Initiation
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LIFE at the Vatican: Unearthing History Beneath St. Peter’s
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Mourning FDR: In a Classic Photo, the Face of a Nation’s Loss
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True Romance: The Heartache of Wartime Farewells, 1943
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‘I Was in LIFE’: Kim Novak Remembers
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Behind the Picture: Marines Blow Up a Blockhouse, Iwo Jima, 1945
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