Mark Stein

A feature story about the delicate task of moving a 65 million-year-old stegosaurus skeleton to a more-trafficked part of the American Museum of Natural History. Much was at stake. The fossilized skeleton, known as Apex, is on loan from a financier who recently bought it at auction for $44.6 million -- 10 times its presale estimate.

Moving the beast was like assembling a 320-piece 3-D jigsaw puzzle after having just disassembled it, put every fossil in its custom-made, foam-padded crate and wheeled each piece up to the fourth floor.

A League of His Own tells the remarkable story of Albert Goodwill Spalding, the 19th century pitcher, mogul, and visionary who cofounded the National League, shaped professional baseball and made a fortune by dominating the sporting goods industry.

Smoke from a fire at a wood-treatment plant near Oroville, Calif., deposited a chemical compound called dioxin on the town and nearby farms and ranches. Public health officials warned that dioxin exposure can cause reproductive, developmental and hormonal problems, and cancer.

People who lived in the area were at a loss about what to do. Tests found dioxin almost everywhere: on fields and grazing lands, in cows and chickens, milk and eggs, local well water and, most worryingly, the people who lived there.

One woman lamented: "Our land is contaminated. Our water is contaminated. What do we do? Where do we go?"