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Six Billion contributor Ashley Gilbertson wins the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the war in Iraq.

'My House, My Shack' wins the Exploratorium's Ten Cool Sites Award for educational excellence.

Four British detainees from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba have been released to the UK and will not be charged by police.

Six Billion appears Dec. 3-5, 2004, at the .

Six Billion contributor Bruce Benderson wins the 2004 Prix de Flore for his book Autobiographie Erotique.

Six Billion contributor Albert Maysles' documentary coverage of the "Vote for Change" tour appears on the Sundance Channel, October 2004.

Six Billion is featured in the May/June 2004 issue of Step Inside Design magazine.

Hear Six Billion contributor Nancy Updike's report about private contractors in Iraq, a story for which she was awarded a Scripps Howard Foundation award.

"Recruit: Joining the Army of One," by Six Billion contributor Chris Sims, is on exhibit at the John Hope Franklin Center Gallery in Durham, North Carolina until July 16, 2004.

Six Billion contributor William T. Vollmann is a finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction.

Six Billion appears at the 2003 .

about Issue 3// Battleground States
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Once-prosperous Mosul watches as a governor is slain, bombings become routine, and the promise of a new way of life goes sour.

At home in the Iraq war‘s spreading front, "NAJMA ABDULLAH" updates a regular diary.

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Following the September 11 attacks, the U.S. detains hundreds of men as suspected terrorists.

Using spoken and written evidence, VICTORIA BRITTAIN and GILLIAN SLOVO recount the words of one detainee and his family.

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Elections loom, insurgents regroup after Falluja, and much of the war in Iraq is fought street by street, house by house.

War photographer ASHLEY GILBERTSON finds one U.S. soldier after a raid.

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Iran‘s conservative mullahs take power in 1979, and uneasy families scramble to send their children abroad.

Some of them return. MARJANE SATRAPI draws life under the new regime.

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A record number of Americans go to the polls in November—a turnout not seen since the Vietnam War polarized the country in 1968.

On location in Ohio, KIMBERLY PEIRCE and REID CAROLIN follow a day of voting.

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In 1994, after decades of struggle in South Africa, apartheid ends and polls open to voters of all races.

Ten years after this historic event, little has changed for most black South Africans. SUE JOHNSON documents life in one township.

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