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Volume 30, Number 10, January, 2000Secretary 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 . . . . . ??
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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 ??
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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 . . . . . . . . . ??
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??