March/April 2010

COVER STORY
A Breakfast Solution
Anemia and malnutrition stunt the cognitive development of many children in poor, rural areas of China. Through testing and field trials, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute found an answer that may give millions of kids a better future. By Joel Mccormick
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extraS: Why the Avatar wore Cardinal, rare birdsong recordings, and follow-ups on tales of yesteryear
Eco-advice: Compare small and large cars, real and man-made diamonds, and heating and insulation options
Video: How to create a graphic novel, recruit a winning football class, play squash, and more

The Sex Scholar
Her physician's career foreshortened, an enigmatic faculty member instead pursued a path-breaking study of women's sexuality at the turn of the 20th century. Her findings, buried and forgotten for decades, reveal a surprisingly modern attitude among Victorian-era women. By Kara Platoni

The Man Who Dropped Clocks
The winning entry in our 13th annual fiction contest features an aging patriarch trying to repair the estrangement caused by his son's modern ways. Fiction by Ann Newton Holmes