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Volume 30, Number 10, January, 2000
Volume 30, Number 11, February, 2000
Volume 30, Number 12, March, 2000
Volume 31, Number 1, April, 2000
Volume 31, Number 2, May, 2000
Volume 31, Number 3, June, 2000
Volume 31, Number 4, July, 2000
Volume 31, Number 5, August, 2000
Volume 31, Number 6, September, 2000
Volume 31, Number 7, October, 2000
Volume 31, Number 8, November, 2000
Volume 31, Number 9, December, 2000


Smithsonian
Volume 30, Number 10, January, 2000

    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: Increase,
                                  Diffusion and \ldots INSPIRATION . . . . 12
                 Anne Geracimos   The Object at Hand: a Mystery in
                                  Miniature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
                 Michael Kernan   Around the Mall & Beyond: a Renaissance
                                  Man  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
                Donovan Webster   Introducing: Points of Interest  . . . . 26
                      Jake Page   Making the Chips that Run the World  . . 36
            Wendy Mitman Clarke   Moving Big Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
                 Bennett Schiff   Martin Johnson Heade: An American
                                  Original . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
             Rudolph Chelminski   Jeu de Paume, Anyone?  . . . . . . . . . 72
                 Evan Hadingham   Ready \ldots Aim \ldots Fire!  . . . . . 78
                  Adele Conover   Sloth Bears: They Eat Ants, but Take on
                                  Tigers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
                   Mimi Minnick   Breck Girls  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
                 Robert Wernick   Yalta: Witness to History  . . . . . . . 100
            Donald Dale Jackson   The Last Page: Good-bye, Rhode Island    120
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews: \em A Mediterranean Feast,
                                  by Clifford A. Wright  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: Easy Does
                                  It\ldotsSteady\ldotsUpsy-daisy . . . . . ??

Smithsonian
Volume 30, Number 11, February, 2000

    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: a Smithsonian
                                  for this Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
                  T. H. Watkins   Points of Interest: The End of the Road  22
               Hanna Rose Shell   The Object at Hand: Last of the Wild
                                  Buffalo  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
              Bernice Wuethrich   Phenomena, Comment & Notes: When
                                  Permafrost Isn't . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
                   Mark Wheeler   When Magma's On the Move . . . . . . . . 40
                Mark W. Moffett   Casting Light on Iranian Deserts . . . . 50
                 Constance Bond   A Fury from Hell --- or Was He?  . . . . 62
                 Paul Trachtman   Redefining Robots  . . . . . . . . . . . 96
                Stanley Meisler   Splendors of Topkapi . . . . . . . . . . 114
                   Bruce Watson   ``You Gotta Remember, Eels Are Weird.''  124
           Richard Wolkomir and   
                 Joyce Wolkomir   Day by Day, In Pursuit of Justice  . . . 134
           Mary Augusta Rodgers   The Last Page: For a Bedtime Reader, Not
                                  Any Book Will Do . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Beasts on High . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews: \em Mind of the Raven, by
                                  Bernd Heinrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: Mom Earns
                                  Another Stripe . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Smithsonian
Volume 30, Number 12, March, 2000

    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: The New Man
                                  at Air and Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
                Donovan Webster   Points of Interest: Two for Tea  . . . . 24
                   Edwards Park   Phenomena, Comment & Notes: a Tale of
                                  Fatal Feuds and Futile Forensics . . . . 32
                  Adele Conover   The Object at Hand: Hawaii's Vanishing
                                  Birds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
                   James Chiles   A Second Wind  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
             Rudolph Chelminski   And the Artists Who Play Them  . . . . . 64
               Derek Grzelewski   Night Belongs to the Kiwi  . . . . . . . 76
                   Doug Stewart   Scythian Gold  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
                David A. Taylor   A Noble and Absurd Undertaking . . . . . 100
                   Bruce Watson   A Unique Home for Cutting-edge Art . . . 114
                 David Standish   Myles and Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
                        Ted Gup   The Last Page: He's Shopping for Pants
                                  but Coming Up Short  . . . . . . . . . . 148
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews: \em The Tulip: The Flower
                                  that Has Made Men Mad, by Anna Pavord    ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   In Praise of Pianos\ldots  . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: Driven to
                                  Explore America  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Michael Kernan   Around the Mall & Beyond: Bonding through
                                  Books  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Smithsonian
Volume 31, Number 1, April, 2000

                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews: \em Fire on the Mountain:
                                  The True Story of the South Canyon Fire,
                                  by John N. Maclean . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Petal Power  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: The Reality of
                                  Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                John H. Chettle   When War Called, Davis Answered  . . . . ??
                Richard Conniff   Points of Interest: Wanted, Dead or
                                  Alive  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                  Adele Conover   The Object at Hand: The Biggest One That
                                  Didn't Get Away  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              Richard Covington   Beirut Rises from the Ashes  . . . . . . ??
                    Jim Doherty   Requiem for a Middleweight . . . . . . . ??
                    Helen Dudar   The Grandeur That Was Rome . . . . . . . ??
                        Ted Gup   Empire of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Michael Kernan   Around the Mall & Beyond: Bone Specialist
                                  On Call  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Mark Kurlansky   The Basque History of the World  . . . . ??
                     June Lemen   The Last Page: Earning a Halo Can Stink
                                  to High Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
              David M. Schwartz   Birds, Bees and Even Nectar-feeding Bats
                                  Do It  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: The Gem of
                                  the Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   James Trefil   Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Evidence for
                                  a Flood  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
           Richard Wolkomir and   
                 Joyce Wolkomir   Reading the Messages in Everyday Things  ??

Smithsonian
Volume 31, Number 2, May, 2000

    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: From Paper to
                                  Pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
                      Anonymous   Phenomena, Comment & Notes: a Celestial
                                  News Bureau  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
                 Michael Kernan   Around the Mall & Beyond: Art's Moving
                                  Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
                   Bruce Watson   Points of Interest: Bound for Glory  . . 36
                   Edwards Park   The Object at Hand: Portraits on the
                                  Plains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
                 Michael Parfit   ``The Corn Was Two Feet Below the
                                  Wheels'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
                   Bruce Watson   Squaring the Circle Is No Piece of Pi    70
                  Diane M. Bolz   The Timeless Art of Crafts . . . . . . . 86
               Derek Grzelewski   Batty About Flying Foxes . . . . . . . . 100
                      Jake Page   Beauty and the Beasts  . . . . . . . . . 110
                   Doug Stewart   The Pinhole Point of View  . . . . . . . 124
            Stephan A. Schwartz   George Mason: Forgotten Founder  . . . . 142
                Richard Conniff   The Last Page: Who's a Yuppie Twit?  . . 160
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews: \em For the Love of It:
                                  Amateuring and Its Rivals, by Wayne
                                  Booth  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   People in Glass Houses\ldots . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: ``I Commenced to
                                  Singing''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Valerie Jablow   Phenomena, Comment & Notes: a Celestial
                                  News Bureau  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Smithsonian
Volume 31, Number 3, June, 2000

                    Minna Morse   Points of Interest: Camping in Concert   16
                Julie Wakefield   The Object at Hand: The ``Indomitable''
                                  MRI: Raymond Damadian's Medical Imaging
                                  Machine Set Off a Revolution --- But Not
                                  Without Controversy  . . . . . . . . . . 22
                 Michael Kernan   Around the Mall & Beyond: The Talking
                                  Drums  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
               Richard Wolkomir   Charting the Terrain of Touch  . . . . . 38
                   Susan Hornik   Afloat with Fly Boats and Leggers  . . . 50
              Richard Covington   A Swoopy, Funky Fun House of Rock  . . . 68
                Phyllis Tuchman   The Quiet Mastery of Jeon-Siméon Chardin  80
                   Steve Kemper   Horning In?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
              Joseph A. Harriss   For the Love of Mustard  . . . . . . . . 102
                   Bruce Watson   The Amazing Author of Oz . . . . . . . . 112
                      Anonymous   The Last Page: Shop for This Label: ``No
                                  Assembly Required.'' . . . . . . . . . . 124
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: Art Recalls a
                                  Forgotten War  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Supermodels with Six Legs  . . . . . . . ??
                  Danny Heitman   The Last Page: Shop for This Label: ``No
                                  Assembly Required''  . . . . . . . . . . ??
    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: Whole Worlds
                                  to Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Smithsonian
Volume 31, Number 4, July, 2000

    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: Evidence From
                                  the Skies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
                    Sue Allison   Points of Interest: No Return Address    18
                   Edwards Park   The Object at Hand: Our Flag Was Still
                                  There  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
             Edwin Kiester, Jr.   Battling the Orange Monster  . . . . . . 32
                  Lucinda Moore   Capturing America's Fight for Freedom    44
                Stanley Meisler   The Poetic Vision of Spanish Sculptor
                                  Eduardo Chillida . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
              Virginia Shepherd   Down on This Farm the Times They Are
                                  A-changin' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
                   William Burt   Nightjars Are Everywhere, But Just Try
                                  Finding One  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
                  Richard Stone   Vostok: Looking for Life Beneath an
                                  Antarctic Glacier  . . . . . . . . . . . 92
                   Bruce Watson   The Last Page: Every Dog Wants to Have
                                  Its Day in Court . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   The Mad Hatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: It's a Drum  . . ??
            Marian Smith Holmes   Rescue and Restoration . . . . . . . . . ??

Smithsonian
Volume 31, Number 5, August, 2000

    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: Reading the
                                  Bones  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
             Rudolph Chelminski   Points of Interest: The Last Schoolhouse 22
                  Adele Conover   Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Foreign Worm
                                  Alert  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
                 Michael Kernan   Around the Mall & Beyond: Turning a New
                                  Leaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
                   David DeVoss   Searching for Gavrilo Princip  . . . . . 42
                Douglas Whynott   Something's Fishy about this Robot . . . 54
                    Bil Gilbert   Ringtails Like To Be Appreciated . . . . 64
                   Steve Kemper   High on Grass  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
                Scott R. Ferris   ``The Stormy Petrel of American Art.''   78
                  James Conaway   Renaissance of the Long-rifle  . . . . . 96
         Kathryn Allamong Jacob   Vinnie Ream  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
                     Robb White   The Last Page: Signs of the Times  . . . 120
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \em The Real Wild West, by
                                  Michael Wallis . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: The Soul of the
                                  Hispanic Santos  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Tickling the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Smithsonian
Volume 31, Number 6, September, 2000

    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: a Monumental
                                  Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
                      Anonymous   Points of Interest: ``The Jitterbug Met
                                  R&B'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
                 Michael Kernan   Around the Mall & Beyond: a Storied
                                  Gallery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
                Donovan Webster   Malaria Kills One Child Every 30 Seconds 32
             Rudolph Chelminski   An American in Bourron-Marlotte  . . . . 46
                   Doug Stewart   Imagining the Orient . . . . . . . . . . 60
                Richard Conniff   So Tiny, So Sweet\ldotsSo Mean . . . . . 72
                 Heather Millar   Dancing on Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
                Julie Wakefield   Waterlogging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
                   T. J. Stiles   As Good As Gold? . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
                   Gerald Dumas   The Last Page: a Fellow Can't Be Too
                                  Careful These Days . . . . . . . . . . . 120
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: Diamond Days . . ??
              T. Edward Nickens   Points of Interest: ``The Jitterbug Met
                                  R''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Smithsonian
Volume 31, Number 7, October, 2000

    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: The
                                  Impossible Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
                   Bruce Watson   Points of Interest: Welcome to Jungle
                                  Jim's  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
                  Marika Carley   The Object at Hand: Libba Cotten's
                                  Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
                Julie Wakefield   Phenomena, Comment & Notes: The Return of
                                  the Phage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
                Charles Bergman   The Cat That Walks by Itself . . . . . . 54
                   Doug Stewart   Kudzu: Love It --- or Run  . . . . . . . 64
                Stanley Meisler   Art Nouveau  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
                  Donald McCaig   The Bozeman Trail  . . . . . . . . . . . 88
           Richard Wolkomir and   
                 Joyce Wolkomir   You Are What You Buy . . . . . . . . . . 102
                   Bruce Watson   The Judge Who Ruled Baseball . . . . . . 120
               Janice L. Kaplan   The Last Page: The Book That Tells
                                  Stories About You  . . . . . . . . . . . 140
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Book Review: \em Faster, by James Gleick ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   A Lofty Tribute to Barns . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: Building a
                                  Better Dinosaur  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Wanted: Big Men  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Smithsonian
Volume 31, Number 8, November, 2000

    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: a Passionate
                                  Collector  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
              W. Hodding Carter   Points of Interest: Roadside Attractions 28
                 Michael Kernan   Around the Mall & Beyond: a Stellar
                                  Imagemaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
                 Valerie Jarlow   The Object at Hand: Presidential Designs 46
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian's Notable Books for
                                  Children, 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
                      Anonymous   Recollecting the Presidents  . . . . . . 74
              Joseph A. Harriss   The Pygmalion of the Avant-Garde . . . . 88
                    Per Ola and   
                Emily D'Aulaire   Baking Up a Business . . . . . . . . . . 108
               Scott Weidensaul   The Rarest of the Rare . . . . . . . . . 118
                   Bruce Watson   What's Wrong with This Picture?  . . . . 130
                    Lisa Newman   Andrew Carroll: Man of Letters . . . . . 152
                   Gerald Dumas   The Last Page: Hide the Catalogs --- I'm
                                  Out of Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Farewell, Bright Soul  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Mountains of Pain  . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: Images from
                                  Imperial India . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                 Kathleen Burke   Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children
                                  2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Smithsonian
Volume 31, Number 9, December, 2000

                      Anonymous   Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Highlights Calendar  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Letters to the Editor  . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Smithsonian Highlights: a Gift of Rhythm
                                  and Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   The Twigman Cometh . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                     Kent Black   The Last Page: The Public Bath . . . . . ??
           Jennifer Lee Carrell   Newton's Vice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
             Rudolph Chelminski   Warning: Log-o-phil-ia is Addictive  . . ??
             Carolyn H. Crowley   The Object at Hand: Race for a Remedy    ??
                     Susan Dunn   Book Reviews: Sister Revolutions: French
                                  Lightning, American Light  . . . . . . . ??
                 Michael Kernan   Around the Mall & Beyond: Portraits of
                                  Her People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Ed Leibowitz   Out from under the Wrecking Ball . . . . ??
              T. Edward Nickens   Points of Interest: The Cypress Grill    ??
                    Per Ola and   
                Emily D'Aulaire   Inscribing the Word  . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   John F. Ross   People of the Reindeer . . . . . . . . . ??
    Secretary Lawrence M. Small   A Note from the Secretary: The Liveliest
                                  Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                   Bruce Watson   The Dogs of War  . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
               Richard Wolkomir   Shod for Snow  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??