another good one:    

Raiders of the lost R2: Excavating a galaxy far, far away—By Jon Mooallem (Harper's Magazine)

Source: www.harpers.org

It was just before six in the morning when we stopped at a rest area off Interstate 8, near where California, Arizona, and Mexico meet in the desert. A line of U.S. Border Patrol dune buggies with flat tires slumped at one end of the parking lot. ...