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April 2017 Printing

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Page 12: NASA photo; page 13: Top: Courtesy of Israel Antiquities Authority; page 15: Top: Culver Pictures; middle: © Nobelstiftelsen; bottom: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScl/AURA); page 17: Supercomputer: Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories; page 18: Hebrew text: This image has been produced with the permission of the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center for Preservation and Research, Claremont, California. All rights reserved; page 25: UN PHOTO/Jean Pierre Laffont; page 30: Atomic cloud: USAF photo; soldiers: U.S. Marine Corps photo; starving children: WHO/OXFAM