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Fred Hapgood The lab that is putting a new face on
the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--79
Doug Stewart Through the Looking-glass into an
Artificial World --- via Computer . . . 36--45
David Plowden Grand old lakers: going, going \ldots
almost gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Bruce Watson Girls! Boys! It's Edward Stratemeyer! 50
John Huehnergarth Can one button-phobic help close the
Gadget Gap? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Evelyn Hofer For the Pergamon, a rebirth in reunified
Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Bennett Schiff Georges Seurat and the color of
brilliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Susan Middleton and
David Liittschwager See how wonderfully this creature is
made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Jon Krakauer Wig wearers let their hair down . . . . 124
Martin Rogers All eyes on the Very Important Potato 138
Charles N. Barnard I found my love in Avalon beside the Bay
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Bruce Watson How HyperTime flies whenyou'reontherun 186
William H. MacLeish and
Paul M. Breeden 1492 America: the land Columbus never
saw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Henry Adams The testimony of Thomas Eakins . . . . . 52
Constance Bond and
Phil Schofield You plan your shopping trips with the
tides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
John Skow and
Enrico Ferorelli With Lighthawk, seeing is believing . . 86
Isidoro Genovese From Italy, a breathtaking bowl of stars 108
Thomas H. Wolf and
Robert J. Byrd Cookbooks, or How to bake a best-seller 118
Lawrence Malkin and
Richard Howard Getting 'em hooked on the Bard . . . . . 134
Hope Ryden The private life of Madam Chatterly . . 146
Carl Posey and
Robert Crawford A disquieting visit to the Canal Zone 156
Bailey White The ornithologists who loved to talk
turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Timothy Foote Columbus and the world he left behind 28
Phil Patton and
Baron Wolman Studie buffs would rather fix than
switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Bennett Schiff I paint the American scene . . . . . . . 60
William Zinsser and
Arthur Shilstone New ripples on the waters of Pearl
Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Charles Bergman and
Frans Lanting Hawaiian monk seals get a Head Start in
life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Philip Gould O come, all ye (miniature) faithful . . 100
Lionel Casson and
Keith Bendis Middle Eastern oil: you couldn't give it
away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
James Shreeve Moshe the Neanderthal and our family
tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
John Fleischman and
Coskun Aral Digging deeper into the mysteries of
Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Jim Robbins and
Eduardo Fuss It feels like your lips are going to
fall off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Stanley Meisler and
Robert Frerck The Prado Museum, the pride of its
people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Israel Shenker and
Lane Yerkes Bess of Hardwick: England's other Bess 68
Jack Fincher and
Liane Enkelis `He's my hands, my feet, my best friend' 80
Anonymous Chang Dai-chien, the peripatetic painter 90
David Roberts and
Pierre Boulat When the quarry is marble . . . . . . . 98
Robert Wernick and
Eduard Gladkov They're just wild about Pushkin . . . . 111
Donald Dale Jackson When you're all gut, there is no glory 132
Jake Page and
Matt Bradley The bountiful beauty of New Mexico's
Gray Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
James R. Chiles and
Pierre Mion Happy birthday! and here's your phone
number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous `Songs of My People': images of
diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Israel Shenker and
Pierre Boulat Victor victorious: he's rescued the
veggie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
John Fleischman Snip, snip, paste, paste, save, save . . 78
Jon Krakauer Glowing surprises from a virtuoso's oven 90
Beverly Beyette and
John Livzey Turning back the clock in Red Oak II,
Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
John Seidensticker and
Susan Lumpkin The mountain lion, an appealing predator 113
Rudolph Chelminski Next to Brzezinski, Chelminski's a cinch 136
David Roberts and
Terrence Moore At Casa Malpais, catacombs and
collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Nancy Shute and
Randall Hyman Who ya gonna call? Wildlife-crime
busters! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Henry Adams Hmmm \ldots is it live or is it trompe
l'oeil? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Joe Sherman and
Richard Howard From Lincoln Logs to cabin fever . . . . 66
William Severini Kowinski and
Bill Ray To playwrights, it's `Tryout Town, USA' 78
Ralph Graves You may fire when you are ready, Gridley 88
Anonymous For astronomers, a deluge of data from
space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Bruce Watson Ambrose Bierce, n. A curmudgeon for all
seasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Mark Fischetti and
Peter Angelo Simon To fill'er up, just plug'er in . . . . . 34
Helen Dudar Whoever heard of a museum called SAM? 46
Timothy Foote and
Enrico Ferorelli A dog's best friend is his trainer . . . 60
Michael H. Robinson Nature's game of attack and defense . . 74
Anonymous The spirit of Mexico in close-up . . . . 86
J. D. Reed and
Jonathan Atkin The shirt that suits everyone to a T . . 96
Robert Wernick and
John McGrail Tales of a baby `bibliomaniac' and how
he grew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Bruce Watson Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live 116
Bailey White My five-year plan for a garden from a
can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Fred Strebeigh and
Bryan Alexander and
Cherry Alexander Thar she blows! And thar she goes! . . . 30
Richard Conniff and
Enrico Ferorelli Orienteering: the benchwarmers' revenge 44
Bennett Schiff George Bellows, Most Valuable Painter 58
David H. Levy Comet hunters, night watchmen of the
heavens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Richard Meryman and
Harry Benson She's got something to sing about . . . 84
Dennis Dittrich Sports mania is older than you think . . 96
John Fleischman and
Gordon Baer Cincinnati's Union Terminal --- it grew,
and how! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
James A. Cox Get me Doolittle! barked the general . . 112
Bailey White `Put those damned binoculars down, Lila' 144
Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 10
Michael Robinson Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 22
Richard Wolkomir The quiet revolution in `hand talk' . . 30
Bruce Fellman Rustle ye rosebuds while ye may . . . . 44
Michael Webb The pleasing places of Arata Isozaki . . 58
Doug Stewart How do you get to Pelycosaur Heaven? . . 70
David Nevin From Sam Houston, a surprising bonus . . 82
Noel Vietmeyer O Possums! New Zealand's immigrants run
amok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
John Krakauer Who was `the lout who built this route'? 102
William Rathje and
Cullen Murphy The truth about trash . . . . . . . . . 113
Barbara Holland It was a wonderful toy and a glorious
war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 10
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 16
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 22
Stanley Karnow Little Saigon, where Vietnam meets
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Stanley Meisler `Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain' 42
Fred Bavendam Stealth fish --- now you see'em, now you
don't . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Donald Dale Jackson Behind the facade of Mount Rushmore . . 64
Patrick Breslin `They will still be Mayans \ldots' . . . 78
Richard Wolkomir BayKeeper: turning the tide in San
Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Robert Canzoneri `The last time I talked to Bill \ldots'
Not! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Bil Gilbert Commuter crows: why they come home to
roosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Michael Kernan To have fun, take one tree and add house 124
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 14
Michael Kernan Object at hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 20
Jim Doherty In Idaho, apostles of wilderness at work 32
Bennett Schiff Making art for thought's sake . . . . . 48
Robert Wernick Biltmore: dream house for a day . . . . 58
Richard Conniff `If a poem gets worse, stamp your feet!' 77
Dora Jane Hamblin Rome and water --- together again, and
forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Helen Dudar Garth Fagan's `Griot New York' . . . . . 102
Richard Wolkomir Wolfgang Mieder, turner of proverbial
stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Timothy Foote `A River Runs Through It' --- a film at
last . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Elaine Segal Ouch! Sometimes it hurts to bring up the
past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 15
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 20
Donald Dale Jackson Taking the Wal-Mart cure in Viroqua,
Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous The time is right to see Matisse . . . . 48
Charles L. Mee, Jr. Tragedy in the halls of Montezuma . . . 56
Steve Kemper `If you can fish from your condo, you're
too close' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Rosamond W. Purcell Natural history and the will to order 92
Richard Wolkomir Croquet: a civilized way to whack your
pals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Beth Livermore A good frog is hard to find . . . . . . 113
Paul Gardner From the heart, a gift of art . . . . . 124
Carl Sferrazza Anthony First Ladies on the campaign tightrope 135
Bailey White The big red hen and the Devil's
Hoofprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 12
Edward Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 20
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 28
Dan Baum and
Margaret L. Knox In Butte, Montana, A is for arsenic, Z
is for zinc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Doug Stewart The little war wagon that could . . . . 60
Joe Sherman Getting creative with amazing GRACE . . 76
Edwards Park Whither the weather, `Almanac'-style . . 90
Richard Conniff Coming to grips with the griz . . . . . 112
Henry Adams From the Great Plains, a wealth of art 124
Ralph Graves Starving artists need not apply (they'll
find you) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Peter Stark The sea kayak, a `kinde of strange
fishe' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Richard Wolkomir Modern myths for modern minds . . . . . 166
Ken Chowder TB: the disease that rose from its grave 180
Bruce E. Watson Can the mailman solve our energy woes? 210
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 12
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 20
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 26
Per Ola and
Emily D'Aulaire The cathedral with something for
everyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Michael Lipske Killer plants, the voracious veggies . . 48
Rudolph Chelminski Hello, Ukraine --- and goodbye . . . . . 62
Edwards Park `If we get in, I'm going to fly' . . . . 85
Phil Patton The marketing of heroes on a half-shell 98
David M. Schwartz `Play with your food more!' . . . . . . 110
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Closing the circle on Piero della
Francesca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Donald Dale Jackson Lord Elgin's Greek tragedy . . . . . . . 135
Donald Dale Jackson One man's bah-humbugs are another's
delights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 10
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 18
John F. Ross Gifts from the yellow vaults of amber 30
Frances Maclean When the Marines went to Haiti . . . . . 44
David Riley For dolphins, a sea of controversy . . . 58
Erik Larson Espionage in the marketplace . . . . . . 70
Phil Patton Peter Galassi and the `imperfect medium' 82
Carl Hoffman Pinball, full tilt once more . . . . . . 96
Don Lessem The `gee whiz' of the Burgess Shale . . 106
Donald Dale Jackson Martin Frobisher, bedazzled by the New
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
James R. Chiles Call me Great or Wise, just don't call
me Disorganized . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 10
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 16
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 22
Thomas H. Wolf The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Michael Parfit Downstream on the Mississippi . . . . . 36
Edwards Park In `Amazonia' the environment is the
star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Miriam Horn For Julie Taymor, reality is only the
beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Robert Wernick A good word about gossip . . . . . . . . 76
Theo Westenberger For native-American dance, standing room
only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Patrick Breslin At flea markets you don't need a lot of
scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous The purposely persuasive power of maps 112
Donald Dale Jackson Sutro Baths: the greatest show on water 120
Bailey White You can give a gator a mike, but . . . . 146
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 22
Minna Morse The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Edwin Kiester, Jr. Don't cut the metal toward you \ldots 44
Wyman Meinzer Roadrunners: galloping gourmets . . . . 58
Bruce Watson On the not-so-lonesome road to bluegrass 68
Chiori Santiago The fine and friendly art of Luis
Jimenez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Richard Wolkomir Topiary and that old urge to prune . . . 100
Fred J. Maroon The U.S. Capitol, 200 years into the
project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Daniel Cohen For department stores, it's retail wars 122
Bil Gilbert The wolverine --- doing what comes
supernaturally? . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Avery Comarow A techie's toast: `Here's looking at
you, kit' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 12
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 20
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 24
Jay Stuller Just how big is Dallas/Fort Worth
International? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Michael Kernan A new monument to remembering-with a
mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
James D. Snyder Bacteria chow down to clean up the
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Bil Gilbert Snappers, those battering rams that walk 93
Richard Wolkomir Learning how to put the fun in the
fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Poster-power to the people . . . . . . . 118
Doug Stewart Building America's architectural record 126
Bruce Watson Luddites and the trashing of technology 140
Paul Trachtman The unmaking of a vegetarian-or why I'm
full of bologna . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 12
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 18
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 21
Richard Conniff Disappearing shadows in the surf . . . . 32
Tom Alexander Blacksmithing forges ahead . . . . . . . 46
Geoffrey C. Ward Elegant Duke Ellington, a feast for eye
and ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Robert Wernick Thomas Jefferson and the stuff of
greatness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Stanley Meisler Sharing the wealth: access to Dr.
Barnes' art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
David M. Schwartz Through a glass brightly with
photomicrography . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Dora Jane Hamblin The Celts --- wild and woolly, and King
Arthur, too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Israel Shenker Paradoxical, polemical Bertrand Russell 128
James Bishop Garbagebrain is my name, useless
knowledge is my game . . . . . . . . . . 152
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
Michael Kernan The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 14
James Trefil Dark Matter, or the Case of the Missing
Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Phil Patton The great Chicago fair, a wonder of
wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Richard Wolkomir He's the `tair master' of Georgia Tech 54
Stanley Meisler `Come to Prague,' said the mayor, and
they did . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Helen Dudar The uneasy esthetic of Jean Dubuffet . . 78
David Roberts Nubia: the unfolding story of a storied
land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Edwards Park Shiver me (tiny) timbers! . . . . . . . 104
Matt Ridley Birds do it, bees do it \ldots but us? 113
Bailey White Thanks, Doc, from the bottom of my heart 128
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 10
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 12
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 17
John Budris Baymen, `sporties' and bass: a fractious
fish story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
John Fleischman Strolling the Agora with Socrates . . . 38
Richard Wolkomir Big boys, big toys and the perfect hot
rod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Steven Barboza Philadelphians brush with greatness . . 62
David Roberts `If one had to pick the strangest
Victorian \ldots' . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Richard Conniff Getting earnest about earthworms . . . . 86
Anonymous George Deem: in a class by himself . . . 98
Tom Alexander The amazing prophesies of `General'
Homer Lea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Bruce Watson Today's topic: How much more talk radio
can you take? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 12
David Nevin `Did'ja see the bear? Where'd it go?' 20
Bruce Watson Navajo Code Talkers: a few good men . . 34
Joel Achenbach Pursuing par on fantasy fairways in
Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Peter Carroll For Ralph Fasanella, every day is Labor
Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Susan Hornik In Hong Kong, the seductive lure of feng
shui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Michael Kernan Special delivery: the National Postal
Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Richard Wolkomir On safari with Henry Stern --- in
Manhatten? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anne Rudloe and
Jack Electric fish --- a shocking tale . . . 94
Robert W. Creamer If your best friend acts like Angus . . 112
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 10
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 16
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 22
Doug Stewart When Consumer Reports says buy, shoppers
listen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Robert Wernick How Johnny Hopper `aggressed back' . . . 46
Richard Wolkomir Into the Semiotic soup with Dr. Sign . . 64
Verlyn Klinkenborg `Come boooossss! Come boooossss!' . . . 82
Jon Krakauer The Denver Art Museum, wowing them our
West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Mark Moffett Climbers: seeking a place in the sun . . 110
Michael Olmert Helen Paterson of the baileys --- and
barrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Jay Feldman The legend and legacy of Roberto
Clemente . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Joseph Kastner My great platypus hunt Down Under, or
how I met Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 18
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 22
David Ewing Duncan The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Edwin Kiester, Jr. What if they made a park and noboby
came? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Adams, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Sue Hubbell Tabloids: They Came From Outer Space! 70
Anonymous There's no fuel pump like an old fuel
pump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Joseph S. Levine The changing of the guard on the coral
reef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
William Severini Kowinski City Pride, the little bakery that could 118
Richard Wolkomir The extraordinariness of everyday things 133
Amy Hill Hearth The Delany sisters have their say . . . 144
Minna Morse You can't find it? Your loss is the
Place's gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 18
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 22
Michael Kernan The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Richard Covington Up a slippery slope in the Alps . . . . 46
Stanley Meisler Celebrating Miro's magic realism . . . . 62
Anonymous Twilight of the tribes? . . . . . . . . 78
Jon Krakauer Harley Hog: the great American dream
machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Terry Domico Those improbable --- and controversial
--- kangaroos . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Michael Kernan The heroic taking of Tarawa . . . . . . 118
Anonymous `Free Within Ourselves' . . . . . . . . 136
Chiori Santiago Tango --- one heart plus four legs . . . 152
Ken Chowder `Fight to win. Fight to live. Fight to
win, win, WIN!' . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Anonymous Book reviews: A harvest of holiday
titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Diane Moczar In France, a fare that is not fair is
fair play, oui? . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 14
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 20
David Roberts `It looks just like a palace', said the
cowboy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Helen Dudar After 200 years, the Louvre spreads its
wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
John F. Ross Out of the mouths of babes, also pigs,
dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Susan McCarthy The marbled murrelet --- out on a limb? 70
Sue Hubbell There's no topping `hopping John' . . . 82
Rudy Abramson Berea College: `a rock in the stream' 92
Constance Bond The art and craftiness of Stanley
Meltzoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Avis Berman The curse of Svengali . . . . . . . . . 110
Bruce Watson To talk to Bruce, hang up and write a
letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 12
Richard Wolkomir Concrete, the gray matter you bet your
life on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Mike Lipske Matsutake mania: in Oregon, mushrooms
mean money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Paul Gardner On the waterfront, Bargemusic is a
contender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Smokey: the bear essentials of fire
prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Bennett Schiff The brilliance and brevity of Amedeo
Modigliani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Claude Stanush `Robbin' banks and trains was our
business.' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Stanley Karnow America goes stir (fry) crazy . . . . . 86
Eugene L. Meyer The odyssey of Pvt. Rosetta Wakeman,
Union Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
James R. Chiles When everything's portable, getting
around can be a drag . . . . . . . . . . 110
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 8
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 12
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 15
Richard Wolkomir Where in the world is Hector Villa? . . 26
Bil Gilbert Westward ho! And never mind the Indians 40
Stanley Meisler Canada's Chemainus, `The Little Town
That Did' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Timothy Foote D-Day and the Battle of Hastings --- a
common thread . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Mike Lipske `A six-foot bird came to our school!' 84
Henry Adams Of land and loss: the paintings of
Thomas Cole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Anonymous Remembering the days --- and nights ---
of drive-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Daniel Stashower The crime of his life: the works of
Dashiell Hammett . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Robert W. Creamer It's a garden of delight to root for the
Wildflowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 6
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 12
James Fallows When East met West: Perry's mission
accomplished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Harry Ginsberg Vintage greetings for a glorious Fourth 34
Donald Dale Jackson Next from Ken Burns, nine TV innings of
Baseball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
James R. Chiles The fearless 40 of New York's Water
Tunnel No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Jim Robbins Stan Herd's card should read `Crop
Artist' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Ellen Ruppel Shell A great playground? That's kid stuff . . 78
Verlyn Klinkenborg Rockwell and Pyle: their invisible link 88
Joseph Kastner Hats off to Harriet Hemenway . . . . . . 96
Gerald Dumas It's hard to know who will get a kick
out of what . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 4
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 10
Elizabeth Schleichert The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Bruce Watson The new Peace Corps in the new
Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Doug Stewart Twenty-five dollar bid an' now 30 now 30 38
Anonymous If a goose \slash Can't quackle \slash
She's out of whackle . . . . . . . . . . 49
Barbara Holland In the market for a late-model llama? 54
Jolee Edmondson Puerto Rico's Ponce rises again . . . . 64
David Roberts The 99s: the right stuff then and now 72
Steve Kemper Ron Parker puts the petals on their
mettle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Donald Dale Jackson Bob Marshall: preserving life on the
wild side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Bruce Anderson Put on your Mae West \ldots and answer
the Ameche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Secretary Adams Smithsonian horizons . . . . . . . . . . 6
Michael Kernan New horizons for Secretary Adams . . . . 12
James Shreeve Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 17
Don Stap Why they're working to save the Florida
scrub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Joe Sherman `Architecture is 90 percent business, 10
percent art.' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Giant donkeys? Blonde pigs? Going \ldots
but not gone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Ted Gup What's a Watson Fellow to do? . . . . . 68
Richard Wolkomir The chips are coming, the chips are
coming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Jim Doherty Bud Herseth, the Chicago Symphony's top
brass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Paul Clancy Mr. Stevens builds his 1893 dream car 104
Paul Trachtman Open wide and say `alternative
medicine.' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Norman Kotker Just go past Shoddy's, head for the
swamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian perspectives . . . . . . . . 9
Michael Kernan Secretary Heyman comes to the Mall . . . 16
Adele Conover The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 24
Joseph Bruhac For Native peoples, a homecoming in
Manhattan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Richard Wolkomir Living under a cloud --- and loving it 52
Tom Huntington Fenway: the emerald among baseball's
diamonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Marian Smith Holmes Berry Gorday and the magic that was
Motown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Politicians, photographers and photo ops 98
Bil Gilbert `I feel as if I might die, if I can't
record the image' . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Adele Conover Bamboo and katydid: their surprising
`inside' story . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Jon Krakauer Making the planet a little less lonely 132
Daniel Pinkwater Forget crackers --- what Polly wants is
a vacation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 10
Edwards Park Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 20
Russell Greenberg Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Book Reviews: A Harvest of Holiday
Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Alexandra Morton `These whales have gotten to know me' 46
Doug Stewart The curse of the Great Eastern . . . . . 62
Helen Dudar When the critics loved to hate
Impressionism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Steve Kemper `Technology is fun --- and you can make
lots of money' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Chiori Santiago From carillons, the ultimate open-air
concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Edwin Kiester, Jr. Uncle Sam wants you \ldots to go to
college . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous She's the textile artist with altitude 142
Donald Dale Jackson The diet biz: fat profits out of thin
air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Timothy Foote Erskine Childers, odd man out . . . . . 158
Joseph Kastner I must have achieved something
impressive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 12
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 16
Beth Py-Lieberman The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Richard Covington The rollicking, rambunctious Edinburgh
Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Fred R. Smith In the swim with the Cambridge Seven . . 50
Donald Dale Jackson To the CCC: thanks for the memories and
monuments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Susan Hazen-Hammond Here's to the `horny toad,' one tough
little squirt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous False faces from far-flung places . . . 94
John Dornberg Count Rumford, the great American
schemer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Ruth Daniloff Vindication for Vadim Sidur and his art 118
Nancy Shute The sinister difference: why lefties
have it so hard . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Robb White What's Christmas down South without
snow, a tree, rats? . . . . . . . . . . 160
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 8
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . 14
Bil Gilbert Perry's prescription: `Don't Give Up The
Ship' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
William Severini Kowinski `I was in the spirit world: images were
alive.' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Rudolph Chelminski Hello sourdough, bye-bye baguette, vive
Poilane! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Steve Kemper Goosey goosey gander, where do you
wander? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
James J. Kilpatrick From Mrs. Malaprop, a plait of
fatuous-free desert . . . . . . . . . . 82
Donald Dale Jackson Robert L. Ripley: Would he ever lie to
you? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous The beautiful baskets of Hiroshima Kazuo 102
Ken Chowder A test of character: the life of Stephen
Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Daniel Pinkwater How Sheriff Bob made me into an explorer 128
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 8
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 16
Timothy Foote The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 20
James Trefil Life on Earth: Was it inevitable? . . . 32
Jay Stuller Whew! That was a close shave! . . . . . 44
Paul Trachtman `I wanted to do something different.' 56
Robert Creamer Rutholatry, or why everyone loves the
Babe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
David M. Schwartz All together, now: Read Aloud To The
Kids! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous `Jaws'? You must have me confused with
someone else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Doug Stewart Micky Wolfson, hunter-gatherer-historian 102
Richard Conniff When Frederick Douglass spoke, freedom
answered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Bailey White So who makes up all those signs\ldots? 132
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jeffrey L. Rotman `JAWS'? You must have me confused with
someone else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 13
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 20
Stanley Meisler At the Hermitage, an artful secret comes
to light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Wendy Mitman Clarke Solo sailing in a race around the world 58
Maxine Rock Going ape at the Yerkes Primate Research
Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Diana Kappel-Smith Desert flowers --- now you see 'em, now
you don't . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Helen Dudar Merchant Ivory gambles with Jefferson in
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Barbara Holland Trial by jury, or Have we got an ordeal
for you! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous `Full Deck Art Quilts': every hand's a
winner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Douglas Starr Dr. Edwin Cohn, the `King of Blood' . . 124
Daniel Pinkwater How my military career came off without
a hitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 10
Jim Doherty Keeping up with our freelancers in the
field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Twenty-five years of looking for the
unexpected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Michael Parfit Before Noah, there were the Lake
Missoula Floods . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
David Bodanis Pulling what out of thin air? . . . . . 76
Anonymous Far-out museums for the discerning few 90
Patrick Breslin The South Bronx bounces back . . . . . . 100
Jim Doherty Deep Springs: academic boot camp for
future leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Bruce Watson Inside Club America . . . . . . . . . . 128
Doug Stewart `Wow, I never knew they built statues to
sewer chiefs!' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
A. Richard Immel Recording nature's greatest hits . . . . 151
Anonymous Back by popular demand\ldotsmeerkats! 170
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 10
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 18
Paul Dickson The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Jeff Wheelwright Nuclear waste: the debate is as hot as
ever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Gifts of remembrance at The Wall . . . . 54
Richard Wolkomir and
Joyce Wolkomir The Wolcott Children's Ballet: boffo in
the backwoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Julia Markus Glimpsing the grandness of `Le Grand
Nadar' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Stephen Fox Chris Evans vs. the Southern Pacific . . 84
William Burt Those hide-and-seek birds called
bitterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Anonymous `Sofonisba Anguissola: A Renaissance
Woman' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Edward Hower When Colonel Olcott met Madame Blavatsky 110
Gerald Dumas `When youngsters say things that crack
you up\ldots' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em The Last Panda, by
George B. Schaller; \em Chimpanzee
Travels, by Dale Peterson; \em Doc: Then
and Now with a Montana Physician, by R.
E. Losee, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued . . . . . . . . . . ??
Kathleen Burke `Sofonisba Anguissola: A Renaissance
Woman' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 10
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 18
Adele Conover The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Per Ola and
Emily d'Aulaire For freight trains, there's a party at
the station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Phil Patton A celebration of American crafts . . . . 52
Jon Krakauer Getting the cold shoulder at Gates of
the Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Sarah Wernick Masters of the quick guffaw . . . . . . 82
Bennett Schiff Mondrian and the eternal rectangle . . . 98
Anonymous When art takes a page from science . . . 108
Sue Hubbell Flutter by and be counted! . . . . . . . 114
Jack Fincher `America beats by far anything,' said
the ex-POW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Daniel Pinkwater When I said I wanted a dog . . . . . . . 150
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 10
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . 17
Bil Gilbert The Object at Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Richard Wolkomir Pity the crash-test dummy: its life is a
total wreck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
John Neary Lucien Maxwell, erstwhile `emperor' of
the Southwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chiori Santiago SFMOMA shakes things up downtown . . . . 60
Anonymous Uncle Sam: `brave as Caesar, meek as
Moses' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Richard Conniff My dog has fleas, also my cat, my bird,
my\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
David M. Schwartz In Odyssey of the Mind, it's the thought
that counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous India's fading tradition of painted
prayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Robert Wernick The Great White Whale nearly finished
Melville too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Edith Pearlman En Garde! Maybe M. Emile was a lousy
hairdresser\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Art cars! Check out that grassy chassis ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Claes Oldenburg takes Pop Art to the max ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued . . . . . . . . . . ??
Russell Drumm Coming of age aboard Eagle . . . . . . . ??
Bil Gilbert Only in America: King James of Beaver
Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . ??
Steve Kemper The magical motion of Micheal Moschen ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . ??
James Trefil The great Martian fossil hunt . . . . . ??
Bruce Watson My psychiatrist tells me I have
`sci-fitis'\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Simon Winchester `Merry of soul': the legacy of Robert
Louis Stevenson . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Wolkomir Everyone's a winner in this shell game ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Where no one's anonymous and everyone's
important . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued . . . . . . . . . . ??
Helen Dudar The fine art of catching art thieves . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . ??
Donald Dale Jackson The man who draws dinosaurs all day . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond . . . . . . . . ??
Kevin Krajick Blading in the streets: the skating
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Kathleen McAuliffe Deep-diving Camille, the camcorder seal ??
Neal Singer Chimney sweeps are back --- because soot
happens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jay Stuller Alcatraz: from penitentiary to parkland ??
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes . . . . . . . ??
Robb White If you reckon your own cousins are
weird\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: New roles for
the Zoo and Conservation & Research
Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: Used to be, for a
swinging time, Presidents carried canes 24
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: A salute to
medical miracles from a heart attack
survivor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: A trip to the
Smithsonian on the World Wide Web . . . 32
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Highlights Continued: ``Secrets of the
Dark Chamber: The Art of the American
Daguerreotype'' (through October 29) . . 44
Richard Wolkomir Las Vegas goes from slots to tots . . . 50
Anonymous All aboard for `The Last Steam Railroad
in America' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Donald Dale Jackson The child-finders blend high tech and
high purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Richard Conniff Weeklies: where we go to `read all about
it' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Kenneth Turan At Italy's Pordenone, a celebration of
silents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Ken Chowder A sea change: the life and art of
Winslow Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Bil Gilbert The armadillo is not just another pretty
face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Enrique Fernandez `Enriquito, don't you know who I am?' 130
Robert W. Creamer `They forced martinis down my throat
\ldots' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Peculiar People: The
Story of My Life, by Augustus Hare; \em
Scenes from the Life of a City, by Eric
Homberger; \em Tales My Father Never
Told, by Walter D. Edmonds . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Look for \em The Last Steam Railroad in
America, with text by Thomas Garvey and
published by Harry N. Abrams, in your
area bookstores . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: Of the Dark
Chamber: The Art of the American
Daguerreotype . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: The
Institution stands to benefit from
decentralization . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Don Moser An Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Marie Winn Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Birdwatchers
set out to solve the mystery of the
banded hawk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Adele Conover The Object at Hand: Tigers in the wild
--- man-eaters or not --- face a fragile
future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous Highlights Continued: ``Cecilia Beaux
and the Art of Portraiture'' (through
January 28, 1996) . . . . . . . . . . . 40
John F. Ross RISK, Part 1: The more we learn, the
harder our choices . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Doug Stewart Elvis as Big Man on Campus . . . . . . . 56
James R. Chiles The really good, really old days on
Capitol Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Richard Wolkomir A soil scientist goes back to her roots 99
Helen Dudar The `realer than real' art of Johannes
Vermeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Rudolph Chelminski It's a one-man band in the palm of your
hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Anonymous Haunting faces from the banks of the
Nile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Douglas Preston Riding through history on the Camino
Real . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Jerry Dennis The world according to Pliny the Elder 152
Katharine Whittemore Sure the piano-violin can do two things
at once \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Smithsonian's Notable
Books for Children, 1995 . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: Beaux and the Art
of Portraiture (through January 28,
1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: A look at the
year past and the challenges ahead . . . 20
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Wormholes,
hyperspace and other galactic marvels 26
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Paintings, old
airplanes, bug: How fragile are they?
Scientists' new findings are saving
objects and money . . . . . . . . . . . 32
James Trefil Risk, Part 2: Safeguarding our cells . . 42
James R. Chiles After V-J Day, a giant cease-fire sale 52
Anonymous Itchiku Kubota: wearing his art on his
sleeve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Richard Wolkomir `Garlic ice cream is really good!' . . . 70
Henry Adams Will the real Rembrandts please stand
up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Richard Covington At Casa Verdi, music is the food of love
--- and life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Jay Stuller If you don't like the climate, just walk
a few yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Robert Wernick Ezra Pound, America's perfidious poet 112
Robb White Those Christmas lights could knock you
off the roof \ldots . . . . . . . . . . 135
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em A Byzantine Journey by
John Ash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued and Visions:
Nineteenth-Century European Images of
the Middle East from the Victoria and
Albert Museum (through January 1, 1996) ??
I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: To celebrate
our 150th birthday, we're bringing the
Smithsonian to you, with exhibits,
lectures and more . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Highlights Continued: a new film,
Africa: the Serengeti, starring the
world-famous grasslands refuge for
myriad wildlife, is now at the National
Air and Space Museum . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: A show at the
Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum offers a
rare insight into the early days of
Washington, DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Stanley Karnow Vietnam: It can succeed, but will it? 32
David Sims Arthur can make a machine that waves
goodbye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Doug Stewart A patriotic photographer gets the big
picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Jack Hope Jack and Jill discover dowsing . . . . . 66
Susan Hazen-Hammond The saguaro survives: 11,000 years and
still growing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Richard Wolkomir Sharp shooters take aim at the cosmos 84
Anonymous In praise of people who persevere . . . 92
Cheryl Lyn Dybas On the ocean floor, let it snow, let it
snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Edith Pearlman It's not polite to ask questions . . . . 112
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: A unique
relationship between Congress and the
private sector began with James
Smithson's bequest to the USA . . . . . 14
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: What a difference
the Difference Engine made: from Charles
Babbage's calculator emerged today's
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Caroline Alexander Waiting for Arthur: a winter vigil at
Camelot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Jeannie Ralston An Appalachian trove of old-timey things 44
Richard Wolkomir They're getting machines to pipe down 56
Rochard Conniff Purple, Orange\ldotsooh, he's oozing
poison on me! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous The penetrating eye of Idaho's Benedicte
Wrensted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Sue Hubbell The old square dance, it ain't what it
used to be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Patricia OToole Stepping into the world of a
19th-century artist . . . . . . . . . . 102
Bruce Watson If $ a = \mbox {math} a n d $
b=\mboxmagic, then $ a + b = $ the
Algebra Project . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Knowledge is
best advanced not by research or
collections or education, but by a
careful balancing of the three . . . . . 14
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: The subject was
poses: Alan Fern on portraiture . . . . 20
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``The Prairie
Schoolhouse'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Jim Doherty Alaska's Arctic Refuge: on the minds of
many . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Bennett Schiff The imperial art of China is a traveling
show indeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Edwin Kiester, Jr. `It's nice to know we were able to nudge
them along' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Fergus M. Bordewich Mississippi moguls: the new Choctaw
middle class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Smoking out the secrets of a Fabergé
treasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
David M. Schwartz Good news or bad, hippos take it on the
chin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Paul Gardner They followed their muse to the City of
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Eric Lawlor `Isn't modernizing a nation a serious
business?' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Joseph F. Wilkinson What's in a name? Just ask King Fisher
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Paul Gardner Book Reviews: \em Notes From the Shore,
by Jennifer Ackerman; \em A Field Guide
to Germs, by Wayne Biddle . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: From its first
days, the Institution has relied on the
help of dedicated volunteers to further
its mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Radio
Smithsonian presents a landmark 13-part
series, Black Radio: Telling It Like It
Was, hosted by Lou Rawls . . . . . . . . 22
Stearns A. Morse Phenomena, Comment & Notes: If one drop
of water falling to earth affects the
whole globe, all research about our
planet is applied research . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Highlights Continued: the 14th annual
Smithsonian Craft Show (National
Building Museum, April 25-28) . . . . . 34
Timothy Foote America in 1846: a country on the move 38
Ellen Ruppel Shell With the right package, you can sell
anything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Bil Gilbert Softball: our best and most-democratic
pastime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Helen Dudar In Philadelphia, a celebration of Cézanne 82
John F. Ross The peculiar, hostile world of the
scorpion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
John Fleischman Cursing? It's crass, it's crafty --- and
it's classic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Glass hammers, wooden saws, visegrip
fish \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Joseph Harriss Taking on the Everest of swimming . . . 118
Bruce Watson Speeding through the Great Books \ldots 136
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em The Song of the Dodo,
by David Quammen . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Taking on the `Everest of swimming' . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: the 14th annual
Smithsonian Craft Show (National
Building Museum, April 25--28) . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Great museums
and research centers depend on great
directors, from Spencer Baird to Sylvia
Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Caretakers of
the weapons collection at American
History, Harry Hunter and Sarah Rittgers
are right on target . . . . . . . . . . 30
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: Two gold sovereigns,
part of James Smithson's original gift,
are reminders of the Institution's
unique start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
John F. Ross After 150 years, we're taking our show
on the road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
David Roberts When we stop singing, we will really be
finished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Jon Krakauer To build on the Mall, follow the
Cardinal rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Elizabeth Royte Unlocking the mysteries of crime takes a
skeleton key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Carol Simons For the Freer's scrolls, Japan is the
place for TLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Douglas Stewart Mpala: a haven for man and beast in East
Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous At the National Museum of American Art,
a photo finish . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Richard Conniff In search of the `white ghost' --- the
giant squid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Sue Hubbell The new taxonomy: nothing like you
learned in school . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: Smithsonian publications,
videos and recordings to order . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous These people belong in an institution! ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Study Tours and Seminars . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: From the woolly
mammoth to the Teddy bear, a new book
tells the story of the Smithsonian . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Within just 20
years of its founding, the Institution
would be shaken by war, controversy and
catastrophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Jack Wiley Phenomena, Comment & Notes: What is the
essence of the Smithsonian? Staff
scientists and researchers give the
Institution the litmus test . . . . . . 20
Bil Gilbert At the National Zoo, a meeting of the
minds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Nancy Shute `Jim had a vision, and we just let him
go' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous A brush with nature: The art of
scientific illustration . . . . . . . . 58
Robert Wernick When divorce, not gambling, reigned in
Reno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Richard Wolkomir `Every Halloween I'd dress like Zorro' 76
Robert H. Boyle The plight of California's otherworldly
sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Joseph Harriss The garçons want to know, when you want
it done right . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Bruce Watson You can't keep a good town down . . . . 110
Edith Pearlman We may be temerarious \ldots but can we
orthographize? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em High Tide in Tucson,
by Barbara Kingsolver . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Study Tours and Seminars . . ??
Diane M. Bolz A brush with nature: the art of
scientific illustration . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``Crowning
Achievements: African Arts of Dressing
the Head'' (National Museum of African
Art) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Joseph Harriss The garçons to know, when you want it
done right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: The
Institution turns the spotlight on
itself in ``Working at the Smithsonian''
at the Festival of American Folklife . . 14
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: With some 500
patents --- even one for brakes on
in-line skates --- Jerome Lemelson now
encourages other inventors . . . . . . . 20
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: The Inverted Jenny,
a misprint soon to be shown at the
National Postal Museum, evokes airmail's
bumpy start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Jon Krakauer Mount Rainier: Washington's tranquil
threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Paul Trachtman Cubism and the shape of things to come 44
Bruce Watson `Henry's not like a lot of CEOs' . . . . 52
Richard Conniff It's a bird \ldots It's a plane \ldots
It's a dragonfly . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Sam Connery Liberty: portraits of a lady . . . . . . 82
William Lanouette Rowing for the gold --- how times have
changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
John F. Ross Seeing the Chesapeake as a whole . . . . 100
Victoria Foote-Greenwell Alexandre Dumas: one for all . . . . . . 110
Donald Dale Jackson When Dad makes tennis a family
game\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Coming of Age With
Elephants: A Memoir, by Joyce Poole . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Study Tours and Seminars . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``Visual Journal:
Harlem and D.C. in the Thirties and
Forties'' (Arts and Industries Building) ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: The
Smithsonian has always had a global
focus, because butterflies and art
movements know no boundaries . . . . . . 10
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond:
Celebrity-hosted ``Smithsonian
Minutes,'' and a bell for the clock
tower, commemorate the Institution's
150th year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous First stop: the Lewis and Clark
Expedition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
David Roberts High adventures in the Gunks . . . . . . 30
Rudolph Chelminski A conservatory in tune with the times 42
Katharine Whittemore The sunflower's got star power . . . . . 52
Robert Wernick `It's déj\`a vu all over again' . . . . . 62
Bonnie Angelo Camp meetings keep 'em in the fold . . . 66
Constance Bond Artrain: a museum that's right on track 76
Richard Wolkomir Po-ta-to, po-ta-to --- Hey, that's
potato! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Richard Conniff When I said I wanted to be wanted for my
body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous 150th Birthday Bash . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em A Schoolteacher in Old
Alaska: The story of Hannah Breece,
edited by Jane Jacobs . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous High adventures in the Gunks . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Study Tours and Seminars . . ??
Anonymous \em William Cooper's Town: Power and
Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early
American Republic, by Alan Taylor . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``Artists at Work:
A Smithsonian Celebration of Staff
Creativity'' (S. Dillon Ripley Center,
International Gallery, through August
11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Share in our
history, and help ensure our future,
with gold and silver commemorative coins
from the U.S. Mint . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Stephen May The Object at Hand: With the rediscovery
of The Death of Cleopatra comes renewed
interest in its sculptor, Edmonia Lewis 16
Donald Dale Jackson `We were so excited when we saw three
heartbeats\ldots' . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Steve Kemper Slogging through the `haunts of the
anaconda' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Diane M. Bolz The Most Endangered Historic Places in
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Robert Wernick Malta's rocks of ages . . . . . . . . . 62
Chiori Santiago Playing the music, reaching for the
moment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Phil Patton Bridge building: an enterprise that's
not for sissies . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Yeah, but can you do a wheelie on that? 98
Minna Morse Coffeehouses: they've got their perks 104
Gerald Dumas While you're taking my mailbox\ldots . . 120
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Talking to the Ground,
by Douglas Preston; \em Cathedrals of
the Spirit, by T. C. McLuhan . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Study Tours and Seminars . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``The 1896
Washington Salon and Art Photography''
(National Museum of American History) ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Carrying out
long-term environmental research
programs is an activity for which the
Institution is well suited . . . . . . . 18
Michael A. Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: At the
Smithsonian's 150th Birthday Party,
young collectors showed they've got the
right stuff, and lots of it . . . . . . 24
Adele Conover The Object at Hand: Despite its
anatomical flaws, the blue whale model
at the National Museum of Natural
History still impresses . . . . . . . . 28
Steve Kemper `Hook this mouse to an EKG and prep it
for surgery' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Donovan Webster A bittersweet journey on the Underground
Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Sue Hubbell Going out of our gourds over pumpkins 64
Rudolph Chelminski `You don't suppose he might be, well,
uh, a prodigy?' . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Richard Conniff Playing Let's Make A Deal with Uncle Sam 82
Martin Bailey Edgar Dégas: saving the best for last . . 96
Anonymous Stone Age statues make contact with
present-day viewers . . . . . . . . . . 108
Bil Gilbert We're beating the bushes for America's
top trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Robert Shnayerson Nuremberg: this century's judicial
Everest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Light Years: A Memoir,
by LeAnne Schreiber . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Study Tours and Seminars . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``The Art of
Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty
Reconfigured'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robb White In my family, snoring has always been a
spectator sport . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: The
Institution's evolving character as the
``people's place'' has won it a
cherished role in our national life . . 18
John Fleischman The Object at Hand: A horse that carried
Phil Sheridan through 45 Civil War
engagements helped Abraham Lincoln's
campaign, too . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: A new report
reveals worrisome gaps in our knowledge
of science and a possible means of
correcting them . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Hands-on
displays at the National Air and Space
Museum's new gallery demonstrate the
physics --- and fun --- of flight . . . 36
Donald Dale Jackson `Red, Hot & Blue: A Salute to American
Musicals' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
David Roberts Into the Sierra Madre in search of a
lost people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Doug Stewart `It's all pure structure, like a
dinosaur skeleton' . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Diane M. Bolz Stitches in time: heirloom quilts at the
Renwick Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Rudolph Chelminski Let them eat fromage! . . . . . . . . . 102
Adele Conover Keith Robinson: Hawaii's botanical Robin
Hood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Donald McCaig California geneticists are going to the
dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Vintage pickups: `American sculpture ---
on wheels' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Robert Wernick The Know-Nothings knew how to win \ldots
for a while . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Smithsonian's Notable
Books for Children, 1996 . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Study Tours and Seminars . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``Image of the
President: Photographs by George Tames,
1944--1974'' (through September 1, 1997) ??
Bruce Watson When your toast starts talking to you
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: ``Red, Hot &
Blue,'' an exhibition on American
musicals, reminds us how much popular
culture shapes who we are . . . . . . . 18
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: An adorable
baby rhinoceros named Chitwan, born at
the National Zoo this fall, has become
the star attraction . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Edward K. Thompson, 1907--1996,
Smithsonian's founding editor and
publisher dies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes:
Oceanographers have discovered a
surprising possibility for slowing
global warming: fertilize the seas with
iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Highlights Continued: ``American
Kaleidoscope'' (National Museum of
American Art, through February 2, 1997) 36
Jeff Wheelwright Methyl bromide: farmer's friend,
environment's foe . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Verlyn Klinkenborg Hooked on the sport with the hole in the
middle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Richard Conniff The \em Verae peculya business of naming
new species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Helen Dudar At the National Gallery, La Tour de
force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Richard Wolkomir Vancouver's school for pixel wizards and
joystick jockeys . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Bruce Watson Hurry! Hurry! Step right up for Coney
Island! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
John F. Ross The rise of an isthmus brings change on
a grand scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Robert Warnick `My profession,' said George Sand, `is
to be free.' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Ruined by Reading: A
Life in Books, by Lynne Sharon Schwartz;
\em Arguing About Slavery: The Great
Battle in the United States Congress, by
William Lee Miller . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Study Tours and Seminars . . ??
Jim Doherty It's great to see old classmates-if you
can recognize them . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert Wernick `My profession,' said George Sand, `is
to be free' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: The
Institution helped found anthropological
studies and continues to play a key role
as the field expands . . . . . . . . . . 8
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: When one of the
National Zoo's gorillas goes in for
tests, it's not just standard
operating-room procedure . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Highlights Continued: ``From Frying Pan
to Flying V: The Rise of the Electric
Guitar: (National Museum of American
History, through September 30)'' . . . . 20
Evan Hadingham `Now, on the count of three, everybody
pull!' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Richard Wolkomir Susan Morse: where the wild things are 34
Stanley Meisler The bonny works of Charles Rennie
Mackintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Eric Sauder Why the best-looking chicks don't go
home with you . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Robert Wernick For sale: 14th-century castle, slightly
used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Sue Hubbell Here's to the toothpick, one cool little
tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Simon Winchester The man who put England on the map . . . 82
Bruce Watson O. Henry: a life that reads like one of
his stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Richard Conniff How I stuck my `hand' in a fire ant
mound \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Illumination in the
Flatwoods, by Joe Hutto . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``From Frying Pan
to Flying V: The Rise of the Electric
Guitar'' (National Museum of American
History, through September 30) . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman With the proper guidelines, both the
Institution and its corporate sponsors
can benefit from the partnership . . . . 12
John P. Wiley, Jr. Scientists may someday be able to tell
us what Fido and Fluffy are thinking ---
but will we like what we hear? . . . . . 16
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events continued . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Richard Schultz It was like a Wild West chase on the
high seas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Per Ola and
Emily d'Aulaire What, no `Four-and-Twenty-Blackbirds
Pie'? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Barbara Holland Cleopatra: so many things to so many
people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Michael Kernan Popping the question, Nineties-style . . 70
Richard Conniff The quick, rapacious, thoroughly
misunderstood weasel . . . . . . . . . . 80
Kenneth Baker Andy Goldsworthy's landscapes of the
mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Jerry Reedy Old radios: tuning in to yesteryear . . 108
Richard Wolkomir and
Joyce Wolkomir After the breakup, who's minding the
Bomb? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Frederica Mathewes-Green If your reading skills weren't
`enhanced' by age \ldots . . . . . . . . 131
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em A Place in Normandy,
by Nicholas Kilmer . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``Feeling the
Spirit: Searching the World for the
People of Africa'' and ``Invoking the
Spirit: Worship Traditions in the
African World'' (South Gallery, Arts and
Industries Building, through March 23) ??
David Helvarg `It was like a Wild West chase on the
high seas' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: With the
proper guidelines, both the Institution
and its corporate sponsors can benefit
from the partnership . . . . . . . . . . ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Scientists
may someday be able to tell us what Fido
and Fluffy are thinking --- but will we
like what we hear? . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: With the
Voices of Discovery program, the
Institution's scholars are touring the
country to share their knowledge . . . . 14
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Hot topics and
spicy revelations abound at a daylong
seminar sponsored by the Smithsonian
Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: Gold and jeweled
boxes, stickpins, rings: from Europe's
royalty, payment in kind to an American
gem of a dentist . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Highlights Continued: ``24 Hours in
Cyberspace'' is at the National Museum
of American History through April . . . 36
Eric Stover Bones\ldotsnever lie, and they never
forget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Bringing up baby at a most unusual
orphanage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Bruce Watson Before electricity, there was
storytelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Richard Wolkomir Getting down and dirty for science . . . 74
Donald Dale Jackson A ship's gallant attempt to solve the
`Northern mystery' . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Edwin Kiester, Jr. Lotusland: weird, wonderful and very
well endowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Back in the picture: women photographers 112
Jonathan Broder An oasis known as the American Colony 120
Chris Granstrom If rocks were worth money \ldots . . . . 144
Anonymous Auguste Escoffier: \em Memories of My
Life, by Auguste Escoffier, translated
by Laurence Escoffier . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Stand Facing the
Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave
America The Joy of Cooking by Anne
Mendelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``24 Hours in
Cyberspace'' is at the National Museum
of American History through April . . . ??
Eric Stover `Bones \ldots never lie, and they never
forget' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Visitors,
staff, even the animals at the Zoo, reap
the rewards of our many gardens and
botanic collections . . . . . . . . . . 18
David Taylor The Object at Hand: A bust of the king
of Siam acquaints us with the real
monarch --- a Buddhist monk, scholar and
savvy statesman . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: The
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
celebrates a century of collecting the
things that tell us who we are . . . . . 34
David Roberts In Texas, a ship is found and a grand
dream recalled . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Jay Stuller Golf looks beyond the `Augusta National
Syndrome' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
John P. Wiley, Jr. Pictures from the edge . . . . . . . . . 68
Eric Wikramanayake Journey to the land of the dragon . . . 74
Donald Dale Jackson `Make haste and saddle yonder braying
ass' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Helen Dudar Bowing toward Byzantium . . . . . . . . 100
Edwin Kiester, Jr. `Excuse me. I'm still on Hong Kong time' 110
James Chiles With nothing to fear --- and nothing to
spend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Jonathan Sapers If you've always been a hacker \ldots 144
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: The 15th annual
Smithsonian Craft Show is at the
National Building Museum, April 24--27 ??
Joe Kane Book Reviews: Savages . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: How a passion
for aircraft built a great collection 12
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Ah-Leon's
Bridge looks real, unless you lift a
plank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Europa may
have undersea volcanoes --- might it
have life? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Highlights Continued: ``Singular
Impressions: The Monotype in America,''
National Museum of American Art . . . . 30
Kevin Krajick Modern-day alchemists turn trash into
cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Jeff Wheelwright On a wing and a prayer, condors are
coming back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Henry Adams No place like home: the works of Charles
Burchfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Robert Wernick The Encyclopédie: banned, burned --- and
bought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Chiori Santiago Tap dancing is `making itself heard loud
and clear' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Andrea Gabor America's monuments to controversy . . . 96
Anonymous Manhattan serves up Buskers Fare . . . . 110
Mark Stuart Gill `Take your hands off that laptop and
freeze!' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Robb White To protect yourself in a world full of
peril \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em My Vegetable Love, by
Carl H. Klaus; \em The Demon-Haunted
World, by Carl Sagan; \em Einstein,
History, and Other Passions, by Gerald
Holton; \em The End of Science, by John
Horgan; \em Oddity Odyssey, by James
Chenoweth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane Bolz Highlights Continued: ``Singular
Impressions: The Monotype in America,''
National Museum of American Art . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: The
Institution is lending a hand with the
three R's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Adele Conover The Object at Hand: Petrified logs paint
a picture of ancient Arizona . . . . . . 30
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: The world on a
string: the 31st annual kite festival 34
Jake Page Finding common ground in the range war 50
Don Moser First Dogs: the Presidents' best friends 62
Richard Wolkomir Run it up the flagpole --- - Whitney
Smith will salute . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Rudolph Chelminski The Maginot Line: not the blunder it's
made out to be . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Bennett Schiff `I am told that you resemble a Maillol
\ldots' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
David C. Holzman The helpful bugs with the strangest of
tastes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Patrick Breslin Daughters of Donegal . . . . . . . . . . 126
Jay Stuller Pizza: the Italian import with
all-American appeal . . . . . . . . . . 138
Joseph F. Wilkinson A hypochondriac knows those `germs' are
real . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em The World of Edward
Gorey, by Clifford Ross and Karen Wilkin
Silver; \em Rights, by Constance Curry;
\em His Promised Land, by John P.
Parker, edited by Stuart Seely Sprague;
\em The Classical Greek Reader, edited
by Kenneth J. Atchity with associate
editor Rosemary McKenna; \em Great
Books, by David Denby . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: a calendar of
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Highlights Continued: ``Agayuliyararput
(Our Way of Making Prayer): The Living
Tradition of Yup'ik Masks'' . . . . . . ??
Don Moser A New Look for an Old Friend . . . . . . 4
John P. Wiley, Jr. Wastewater Problem? Just Plant a Marsh 24
James R. Chiles ``We Got Us Some Sky Today, Boy!'' . . . 44
Peter Stark The Old North Trail . . . . . . . . . . 54
James Traub Mysterious Pearls . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Helen Dudar Monet on the Mediterranean . . . . . . . 80
Diane M. Bolz Women and Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Donovan Webster Pipe Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Bil Gilbert Black Wolf: Ernest Thompson Seton . . . 110
Fred Turner Bix: The Story of a Young Man and His
Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Andrew Wyeth: A Secret
Life, by Richard Meryman . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: The Polar
Visions of Galen Rowell . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Conniff The Last Page: Fire Department . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: A Treasury of
Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Art Night on
the Mall: Perfect for a Stroll at the
Hirshhorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Wastewater
Problem? Just Plant a Marsh . . . . . . ??
Secretary Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Using and
Taking Care of 140 Million Items . . . . 10
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: John Brown's Picture 18
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: The Space Race:
Onetime Rivals Are Now Partners . . . . 22
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: Masterpieces of
Central Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Edwin Kiester, Jr. Water, Water, Everywhere . . . . . . . . 34
Simon Winchester The Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Constance Bond The Man Who Built the Taj . . . . . . . 56
Nancy Shute Fake & Rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Catherine Dold For Rescue Dogs ``Nothing's Better Than
a Live Find.'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Doug Stewart Saving American Steel . . . . . . . . . 84
Suki Casanave Tree Houses Take a Bough . . . . . . . . 94
Lance Morrow George C. Marshall: The Last Great
American? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Olives: The Life and
Lore of a Noble Fruit, by Mort
Rosenblum; \em Eyewitness to America,
edited by David Colbert; \em The Pinball
Effect, by James Burke . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Ted Gup The Last Page: An Ant's Life is No
Picnic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Our New Gem
Hall is a Jewel, Indeed . . . . . . . . 10
Michael H. Robinson Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Here, Birds
Are Unafraid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Bruce Hathaway Around the Mall & Beyond: In Praise of
Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Timothy Foote Shadows on the Rock . . . . . . . . . . 30
Kevin Krajick The Riddle of the Carolina Bays . . . . 44
Michael Kernan A Gem of an Exhibition . . . . . . . . . 56
David M. Schwartz A Gift of a Garden . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Stephen P. Maran Planets Around Other Stars Are Hot Hot
Hot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Chiori Santiago It All Comes Out in the Wash . . . . . . 84
Doug Stewart Mark Catesby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Tom Huntington The Man Who Believed in Fairies . . . . 104
Barbara Beckwith The Last Page: Core-Periphery Relations 128
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em The Price of a Dream,
by David Bornstein; \em North Country, A
Personal Journey, by Howard Frank
Mosher; \em Célestine, by Gillian Tindall ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: The Imprint of
Latino Photographers . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: An Illustrated
History of a Mughal Emperor . . . . . . 12
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Two Cultures
--- Never the Twain Shall Meet? . . . . 20
Minna Morse The Object at Hand: Facing a Bumpy
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Pushing the
Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: A Video
Visionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Jim Doherty Claws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Donald Dale Jackson Go West, Moran . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
James Trefil Nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Where Echoes of Spirits Still Dwell . . 82
Edwards Park They Flew & Flew & Flew . . . . . . . . . 94
Scott McCredie For Those Who Want to Play Outdoors . . 102
Anonymous Picasso Takes on the Masters . . . . . . 114
Barbara Holland Bang! Bang! You're Dead . . . . . . . . 122
Lewis M. Simons The Strange Journey of Heinrich Harrer 134
Robb White The Last Page: ``Hey, Mr. White, that's
the wrong color for that'' . . . . . . . 158
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em How Proust Can Change
Your Life, by Alain De Botton; \em The
Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger; \em
Sonnet, by Lydia Bird; \em The Napoleon
of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam
Worth, Master Thief, by Ben Macintyre ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Pipelines to
the Public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Jake Page Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Hot-Rock
Cooking Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: Langley's Feat ---
and Folly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: A Real
``Nation's Attic'' . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: The Art of
Stanley Spencer . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Yva Momatiuk Mustangs on the Move . . . . . . . . . . 54
Richard Covington The Rebirth of Shakespeare's Globe . . . 64
Doug Stewart ``Expand the Pie Before You Divvy It
Up'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Richard Wolkomir Nothing Escapes the Notice of Bernd
Heinrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Rudolph Chelminski Warsaw: The City that Would Not Die . . 108
Avis Berman The Quiet Man of American Modernism . . 122
Steve Kemper Signs of the Times . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Anonymous StarWars on the Mall . . . . . . . . . . 144
Donald Dale Jackson Miriam Leslie: Belle of the Boardroom 150
Donald Dale Jackson The Last Page: Symbolically Speaking . . 179
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Star Wars on the Mall . . . . . . . . . ??
Kathleen Burke Book Reviews: Notable Books for
Children, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Joseph Henry's
Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Edwin Kiester, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: A Creek
Defies the Odds . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Geology That's
Alive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Adele Conover The Object at Hand: ``Little Brother of
War'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: Time Out ---
Sports in Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
David Roberts The Long Walk to Bosque Redondo . . . . 46
Bruce Watson This Is Not Your Father's Automobile . . 58
Daniel Jack Chasan Will the Dunes March Once Again? . . . . 70
Stanley Meisler The House that Art Built . . . . . . . . 82
Scott Weidensaul The Belled Viper . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Donald Dale Jackson Mutiny on the Amistad . . . . . . . . . 114
Paul Trachtman Hands-on Toys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Joseph F. Wilkinson Look at Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Ted Gup The Last Page: If a Mustache Becomes
You, Don't Cut It Off . . . . . . . . . 160
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Lady's Choice,
compiled and edited by Barbara Love and
Frances Love Froidevaux; \em
Homesteading, by Percy Wollaston; \em
House of Houses, by Pat Mora . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Rachel Carson: Witness
for Nature, by Linda Lear; \em Kingbird
Highway: The Story of a Natural
Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand,
by Kenn Kaufman . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous The Last Page: No Tea, But Sympathy by
Edith Pearlman . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sue Arnold Roll Over, Beethoven . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: Imperial Japan's
Artistic Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Constance Bond The Lure of Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rudolph Chelminski ``Your Opponent Must Be Destroyed'' . . ??
Ken Chowder The ACLU Defends Everybody . . . . . . . ??
Adele Conover To Reproduce, Mussels Go Fishing . . . . ??
Ruth Daniloff Waiting for the Oil Boom . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Museums and
Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John Ross The Object at Hand: Stamps --- What an
Idea! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Doug Stewart Solving the Aging Puzzle . . . . . . . . ??
Phyllis Tuchman Art That Turns Life Inside Out . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Museum
Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: A Symbol That Failed 20
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Olga Hirshhorn
and the Art of Living . . . . . . . . . 26
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: The Artful Lens
of Ansel Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Doug Stewart Times Square Reborn . . . . . . . . . . 34
Tom Miller Remember the Maine . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Bil Gilbert The Joys of Rehabbing . . . . . . . . . 60
Stanley Crawford Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Robert Wernick Books, Books, Books, My Lord! . . . . . 76
John F. Ross The Miracle of the Reef . . . . . . . . 88
Michael Agar The Yucatán's Flooded Basement . . . . . 94
Diane M. Bolz The Beauty of Bare Bones . . . . . . . . 98
Bruce Watson Jack London Followed his Muse into the
Wild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Gerald Dumas The Last Page: Reflections on Fame . . . 116
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Keep an eye out for Smithsonian
Magazine's next contest, Smartifacts II,
coming soon! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Posters at the National Museum of
American Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: Masters of
American Craft . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Adele Conover Fly Away Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Chris Granstrom They Live and Breathe Letterboxing . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Lessons from
the Mall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Valerie Jablow The Object at Hand: A Tale of Two Rocks ??
Stanley Meisler The Case of the Disappearing Frescoes ??
Charles Van Onselen Book Reviews: \em The Seed Is Mine
Across Boundaries, by Mamphela Ramphele;
\em Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A
History of America's Wetlands, by Ann
Vileisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Janet Wallach Daughter of the Desert . . . . . . . . . ??
Bruce Watson The Last Page: When I Was Your Age
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert Wernick For Whom the Bell Tolled . . . . . . . . ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: A Space
Invader Is Here . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Joyce Wolkomir and
Richard Wolkomir The Quality of Mercy . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Singing Our
Praises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
David A. Taylor The Object at Hand: Ring King . . . . . 20
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Backstage at
the Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: More Violence
Overhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
David Roberts Digging for Dinosaur Gold . . . . . . . 40
Ruth Ravenel Smile! (Click) It's the Camera Van . . . 55
Catherine Dold Making Room for Prairie Dogs . . . . . . 60
Kenneth Baker A Window on a World of Shape and Color 72
Barbara Holland The Long Good-bye . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Edwin Kiester, Jr. The Battle of Carson Pass . . . . . . . 96
Fred Hapgood R2-D2 Gets Real . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Roy Rowan Chinese Mountain High . . . . . . . . . 120
Bob Seidenstein The Last Page: Notes About Not Much . . 140
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: Olowe of Ise ---
Sculptor to Kings . . . . . . . . . . . ??
I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Lessons from
the Mall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
John Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: A Space
Invader Is Here . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Valerie Jablow The Object at Hand: A Tale of Two Rocks 26
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Olga Hirshhorn
and the Art of Living . . . . . . . . . 36
Joyce Wolkomir and
Richard Wolkomir The Quality of Mercy . . . . . . . . . . 40
Stanley Meisler The Case of the Disappearing Frescoes 52
Adele Conover Fly Away Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous Posters at the National Museum of
American Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chris Granstrom They Live and Breathe Letterboxing . . . 82
Michael Agar The Yucatán's Flooded Basement . . . . . 94
Robert Wernick For Whom the Bell Tolled . . . . . . . . 110
Janet Wallach Daughter of the Desert . . . . . . . . . 122
Bruce Watson The Last Page: When I Was Your Age
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: A Future in
Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Catching a
Glimpse of America's Industrial Past . . 22
Michael Kernan The Object at Hand: Wow! A Mile a
Minute! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights:
Turn-of-the-Century Views . . . . . . . 32
David Roberts In the Land of the Long-Distance Runners 42
Paul Trachtman The Horse Whisperer . . . . . . . . . . 56
Kathleen Burke Celebrity Caricature . . . . . . . . . . 68
Lawrence Millman Pursuing Justice in the Arctic . . . . . 74
Chris Granstrom A Pastoral Preserve Faces the Future . . 86
Avis Berman Ursula von Rydingsvard Sculpts Metaphors
in Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Marlane A. Liddell The AP Looks Back . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Per Ola and
Emily D'Aulaire Around the World Alone . . . . . . . . . 118
Gerald Dumas The Last Page: Growing Pains . . . . . . 144
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Mark Kurlansky Book Reviews: \em Cod: A Biography of
the Fish That Changed the World . . . . ??
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie The Beggar and the Professor . . . . . . ??
I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives . . . . . . . . 10
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Reading for the
Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Expressions:
The Visible Link . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Charles N. Barnard Blimps: Big, Beautiful and Everywhere
You Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Richard Wolkomir Racing to Revive Our Embattled Elms . . 40
Doug Steward Splash and Spectacle . . . . . . . . . . 50
James Trefil Greetings from the Antiworld . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Lalique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Chiori Santiago House Trailers Have Come a Long Way,
Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Jonathan Kandell Images of the Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 86
Bruce Watson ``Hang 'em First, Try 'em Later'' . . . 96
Melissa Russell The Last Page: Prized Possessions . . . 118
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Bingo Night at the
Fire Hall, by Barbara Holland . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Lalique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Diane M. Bolz Smithsonian Highlights: Celebrating
Folklife Traditions . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Charting a New
Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Doug Stewart Splash & Spectacle . . . . . . . . . . . ??
W. D. Wetherell North of Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jules Witcover The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968
in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Long May It
Wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Jan Adkins The Object at Hand: A Metal Far From
Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Bruce Hathaway Smithsonian Highlights: ``Waiting,
Waiting \ldots CLICK'' . . . . . . . . . 18
Albert Rosenfeld New Breeds Down on the Pharm . . . . . . 22
Stanley Meisler Pierre Bonnard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Robert Wernick The Man Who Dreamed Up Madeline . . . . 44
Richard Wolkomir In Vermont, a Valiant Stand for Freedom 54
Anonymous Dance With the Devilfish . . . . . . . . 66
Kevin Krajick Little Engines That Still Can! . . . . . 72
Marcia Bartusiak X Rays Expose a Violent Sky . . . . . . 82
Jonathan Broder Tangier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Cynthia Cavnar The Last Page: Memory Blank . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: One Under the
Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Sharing the
Gift of Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Bruce Watson The Object at Hand: A Wizard's Scribe 24
Richard Wolkomir Oh, My Aching Back . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Henry Genthe The Incredible Sponge . . . . . . . . . 50
Anonymous The Circus Is Coming! . . . . . . . . . 59
James R. Chiles ``Hallelujah, I'm a Bum.'' . . . . . . . 66
Elizabeth Barkley Wilson Jacques-Louis David . . . . . . . . . . 80
Marlane A. Liddell A Brush with Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Jennifer Lee Carrell How the Bard Won the West . . . . . . . 98
David Standish The Art of Money . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Alison Powers The Last Page: Hell on Wheels . . . . . 128
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous \em The Beach: The History of Paradise
on Earth, by Lena Lencek and Gideon
Bosker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous \em Camping with the Prince and Other
Tales of Science in Africa, by Thomas A.
Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Darwin's Dreampond: \em Drama in Lake
Victoria by Tijs Goldschmidt, translated
by Sherry Marx-MacDonald . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous \em Fields and Pastures New: My First
Year as a Country Vet, by Dr. John
McCormack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous \em Sea Shells, by Paul Valéry . . . . . ??
Bruce Hathaway Smithsonian Highlights: Blue, Blue, Blue
Guitars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Redmond O'anlon No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the
Congo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Why Save the
Flag? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Why Plants
Migrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Scoping Out the
Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Diotima Booraem The Object at Hand: Steaming into the
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Laura Gonzales Smithsonian Highlights: A Mailbox with a
Catch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Holly Menino The Long, Cold Journey of Ice Station
SHEBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anthony Mecir Big Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Joseph Harriss Timeless Tweed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Helen Dudar The Late Great Works of Delacroix . . . 76
Simon Winchester The Strange Case of the Surgeon at
Crowthorne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Nancy Mohr Leonardo's Horse: A Long Shot Pays Off 100
Doug Stewart A Passion for the Past . . . . . . . . . 106
Donald Dale Jackson Aldo Leopold: A Sage for All Seasons . . 120
Sean Vernon The Last Page: My Answering Machine Sure
Had Its Hang-ups . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous \em We Will Not Be Strangers, edited by
Dorothy G. Horowitz . . . . . . . . . . ??
Candace B. Pert Molecules of Emotion . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Dispatches
from the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Wiring the
Jersey Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Saving the
Nation's Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Valerie Jablow The Object at Hand: Tea and Sisterhood 32
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: ``Solar? Not in
My Backyard!'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Edwin Kiester, Jr. The Dominoes Are Falling . . . . . . . . 48
Constance Bond Van Gogh's Van Goghs . . . . . . . . . . 60
Bil Gilbert Rah, Rah, Ruffians! . . . . . . . . . . 74
Richard Conniff The Enemy Within . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Doug Stewart The Old Ball Game . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Jim Morrison Fired with Finesse . . . . . . . . . . . 108
David Roberts On the Frankincense Trail . . . . . . . 120
Patricia O'Toole Dawn in the Garden of Good and Evil . . 138
Gerald Dumas The Last Page: Conversation Stoppers . . 158
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Ciaran Carson Last Night's Fun . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard White Remembering Ahanagran . . . . . . . . . ??
I. Michael Heyman Engaging a Child's Mind . . . . . . . . 12
Michael Kernan Movie Magic on the Mall . . . . . . . . 20
S. J. Ackerman The Object at Hand: The Vote That Failed 36
Anonymous Close Calls in Life and Art . . . . . . 40
Patrick Joseph The Battle of the Dams . . . . . . . . . 48
Richard Wolkomir Protect & Serve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Henry Genthe The Sargasso Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Phyllis Tuchman Jackson Pollock: Modernism's Shooting
Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Rudolph Chelminski The Bosporus: A Disaster Waiting to
Happen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Ken Chowder Muscle Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Eugene L. Meyer Old News Is Good News . . . . . . . . . 138
Anonymous Together They Stay a World Apart . . . . 148
Robert Wernick Chief Justice Marshall Takes the Law in
Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Ken Budd The Hit Parade from Hell . . . . . . . . 176
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: Close Calls in
Art and Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ken Budd The Last Page: The Hit Parade from Hell ??
Kathleen Burke Book Reviews: Smithsonian's Notable
Books for Children, 1998 . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Engaging a
Child's Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Movie Magic on
the Mall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Our Future in
Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Coming to
Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: The Steam
Locomotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: The Beauty in
the Blight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Paulette Dininny The Object at Hand: Keepers of the Flame 44
Carl Hoffman Let It Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Kenneth Baker The Age of Edo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Richard Conniff Christmas Laundry . . . . . . . . . . . 73
T. J. Stiles Buffalo Soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Kenneth Brower Let's Root for the Coot . . . . . . . . 98
David DeVoss In Arizona, It's an All-Night Party for
the Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Every Dog Has Its Day in Elliott
Erwitt's New Book . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Mary Darby In Ponzi We Trust . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Lewis M. Simons The Last Page: The Backseat Driver that
Sits in Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Bruce Edward Hall Book Reviews: \em Tea That Burns: A
Family Memoir of Chinatown . . . . . . . ??
Marie Winn Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in
Central Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Expanding a
Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Ailing? Just
Add Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Trailing the
Big Cats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
John F. Ross The Object at Hand: Picturing Pocahontas 34
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: Portraits by
Philippe Halsman . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
James R. Chiles Casting a High-Tech Net for Space Trash 46
Minna Morse The Changing Face of Stone Mountain . . 56
Steve Kemper Salt of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Bennett Schiff Dosso Dossi: A Renaissance Artist Comes
to Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Richard Conniff Crash, Slam, Boom! . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous When Monkeys Move to Town . . . . . . . 102
Ralph Graves Who Are Those Guys? . . . . . . . . . . 110
Bil Gilbert An ``Odd Fish'' Who Swam Against the
Tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Smithsonian Study Tours . . . . . . . . 134
Bruce Watson The Last Page: ``Let's Get Dale to
Play!'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Barbara Crossette The Great Hill Stations of Asia . . . . ??
Tom Standage Book Reviews: \em The Victorian
Internet: The Remarkable Story of the
Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's
On-Line Pioneers . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Forget Y2K! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: Quilters and
Their Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Adele Conover To Save a Falcon . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David Ewing Duncan Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Saving Our
Treasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Conveying
History through Song . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ed Leibowitz Bar Codes: Reading between the Lines . . ??
Stanley Meisler John Singer Sargent . . . . . . . . . . ??
John Hanson Mitchell Book Reviews: \em Trespassing: An
Inquiry into the Private Ownership of
Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Marguerite Mudge The Last Page: Polly Wants a Porter . . ??
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: Pictures of a
Tragedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard and
Joyce Wolkomir Good News Garage . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
José A. Rivera Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and
Community in the Southwest . . . . . . . ??
David Roberts A Social Divide Written in Stone . . . . ??
Bruce Watson ``Lay It Up!'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: View from the
Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: Paintings of a
Windblown Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Chris Granstrom The Last Page: ``Anyone Having Trouble
Hitting the Notes?'' . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Looking Back
and Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Homer H. Hickam, Jr. Book Reviews: \em Rocket Boys: A Memoir ??
Donald Dale Jackson You Will Feel No Pain . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Making Art
Accessible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Kevin Krajick Mining for Meteorites . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Manning One Round River: The Curse of Gold and
the Fight for the Big Blackfoot . . . . ??
Bennett Schiff Canada's National Treasure . . . . . . . ??
Doug Stewart This Joint Is Jumping . . . . . . . . . ??
Jay Stuller In the Land of Milk and Money . . . . . ??
David Taylor The Object at Hand: Paderewski's Piano ??
Bruce Watson Racing to Round Up Readers . . . . . . . ??
Scott Weidensaul Tracking America's First Dogs . . . . . ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: When Clock
Birds Sing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: American Crafts
--- A Perfect 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous What is Bugging Barbara Norfleet? . . . ??
John Martin Campbell North Alaska Chronicle . . . . . . . . . ??
James R. Chiles Good Days at Black Rock . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: A Museum
Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Barbara Holland You Can't Keep a Good Prophet Down . . . ??
Tom Horton Great Blues Are Going Great Guns . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Moving Down the
Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
David Laskin Stormy Weather --- Live! . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Meryman A Painter of Angels Became the Father of
Camouflage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Roy Sorrels The Last Page: Crazy? No, Just One Card
Shy of a Full Deck . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Doug Stewart Our Love Affair with Lawns . . . . . . . ??
David Taylor The Object at Hand: Tasty Brazil Nuts
Stun Harvesters and Scientists . . . . . ??
Andrew Todhunter Book Reviews: \em Fall of the Phantom
Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bruce Watson Concerto for Pencilina and Sewer Flute ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: We're
Scraping Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: A Place for
Everything and\ldots . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jennifer Lee Carell Training to Slay the Dragon . . . . . . ??
John L. Casti Book Reviews: \em The Cambridge Quintet ??
Mark Derr If You're a Bear, These Dogs Will Give
You Paws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gerald Dumas The Last Page: Don't Call Me Gerald . . ??
Joseph A. Harriss Seeking Mona Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Out of Africa
and Onto the Mall --- and Beyond . . . . ??
Carl Hoffman Attack! Explode! . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: ``A Durable
Memento'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Edwin Kiester, Jr. and
Sally Valente Kiester Yankee Go Home --- and Take Me with You! ??
Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Doug Stewart Eames: The Best Seat in the House . . . ??
T. H. Watkins The Object at Hand: This Bird Did Its
Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bruce Watson ``Hello Boys! Become an Erector Master
Engineer!'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: New Light on
Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous The Great Goddess Devi . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: ``Americanos:
Latino Life'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
James H. Beck Three Worlds of Michelangelo . . . . . . ??
Charles Bergman The Peaceful Primates . . . . . . . . . ??
William Cannon The Object at Hand: Stories in Stone
Read from Ancient Leaves . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Covington The Incredible Lightness of Being Renzo
Piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jim Doherty High & Dry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
James Elkins What Painting Is . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
James Fenton Book Reviews: \em Leonardo's Nephew . . ??
Charles Fergus Summer at Little Lava . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: In Praise of
Modern Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Valerie Jablow and
Bill Horne Farmers' Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Donald Dale Jackson Hot Dogs Are Us . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Renovating
Washington's Monument, Designer-style ??
Heather Millar The Ups and Downs of Highway 1 . . . . . ??
John F. Ross Discovering the Odds . . . . . . . . . . ??
Roy Sorrels The Last Page: A Young Actor Will Do
Anything to Get Work . . . . . . . . . . ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Putting the
Brakes on Light . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous The Resurrection of the Stones . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: Portrait of the
Author as a Young Man . . . . . . . . . ??
Patricia Bernstein Terror in A.D. 1000? . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ken Budd The Last Page: Being Superstitious Can
Drive You Crazy . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Conniff Relax, It's Only a Piranha . . . . . . . ??
Robert Evans Dancing Rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Mark Hertsgaard Book Reviews: \em Earth Odyssey: Around
the World in Search of Our Environmental
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Designing
Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Uncovering the
Secrets of Forest Canopies . . . . . . . ??
Edwin Kiester, Jr. A Town Buries the Axe . . . . . . . . . ??
Edwards Park The Object at Hand: Reds versus Whites ??
Bruce Watson Beyond the Blue: The Art of Maxfield
Parrish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert Wernick Cyprus Lives in Love and Strife . . . . ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Help Is on
the Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Wolkomir Piloting Pint-size Planes . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Book Reviews: \em Great Feuds in
Science, by Hal Hellman . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous \em Portraits of Discovery, by George
Greenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: Life-size Not
Large Enough? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Nicholas Basbanes Mount Athos, Where ``Every Stone
Breathes Prayers'' . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Lionel Casson In the Year 1, Augustus Let the Good
Times Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bil Gilbert Do Not Take the Javelina Lightly . . . . ??
Joseph A. Harriss Tantalizing Turquoise . . . . . . . . . ??
Tim Hensley ``There Is a Certain Amount of Humor in
Checkers'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: A New Day
Begun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: The Vast
Influence of the Wee Microbe . . . . . . ??
Edwin Kiester, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: Turning Water
to Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Stanley Meisler Sculpture Blossoms in a New Garden on
the Mall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Louis Phillips The Last Page: What Good Is a List if
You Can't Read It? . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard and
Joyce Wolkomir Charting One School's Challenging Course ??
Bennett Schiff The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau . . . . ??
Bruce Watson The Object at Hand: Science Makes a
Better Lighthouse Lens . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Creature Keepers . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous A Census of the Wild . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Outsmarting Napoleon . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous The Man Who Invented Elsie, the Borden
Cow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Strawmen and Beastie Boys . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: Connecting with
Kente . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Carolyn Hughes Crowley The Object at Hand: The Man Who Invented
Elsie, the Borden Cow . . . . . . . . . ??
Stephen Fox ``For a While\ldots It Was Fun'' . . . . ??
Henry Genthe Durians Smell Awful --- But the Taste Is
Heavenly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Creature
Keepers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman Book Reviews: \em All You Need Is Love:
The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the
1960s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bernard Jacks The Last Page: What's One Bad Fig in a
Nice Bag of Fruit? . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Steve Kemper Something Just Bit You? . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Outsmarting
Napoleon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Stanley Meisler A Masterpiece Born of Saint Anthony's
Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bennett Schiff Out of Egypt: Art in the Age of the
Pyramids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Daniel Stashower Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur
Conan Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Scott Weidensaul Saving Birds with a Ring and a Prayer ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: A Census of
the Wild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Wolkomir Will the Kitchen Please Shut Up! . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous The Gang's All Here . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: In the Eye of
the Beholder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Avis Berman The Eye of Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Andrew Cohen The Last Page: This Is My Grandfather's
Oldsmobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Tim Foote ``A Good Dog Knows What to Do'' . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Two for the
Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Kathleen Hirsch Book Reviews: \em A Home in the Heart of
a City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Valerie Jablow The Object at Hand: Othmar Ammann's
Glory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Finding a
Knight in Shining Armor . . . . . . . . ??
Lawrence Millman Looking for Henry Hudson . . . . . . . . ??
Minna Morse The First Empire Builder of the
Northwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John F. Ross IMAX Takes Us Undersea in the Galápagos ??
Tim Warren True Grits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert Wernick Who the Devil is the Devil? . . . . . . ??
John P. Wiley, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: NASA Goes
Ballistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Facing History . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: Where the
Prairie Grasses Grew . . . . . . . . . . ??
Barbara Beckwith The Last Page: Quicksand? Don't Sink,
Just ``Dance'' Across It . . . . . . . . ??
Kathleen Burke Book Reviews: \em Smithsonian's Notable
Books for Children, 1999 . . . . . . . . ??
James Conaway A Jewel in the Dry Tortugas . . . . . . ??
Richard Covington An Act of Faith and the Restorer's Art ??
Alyse Frampton Going Toe to Toe with Shoes . . . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: A Passion for
Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Steve Kemper The ``Sea Canary'' Sings the Blues . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Audio Visual
Gears Up Long Before Showtime . . . . . ??
Edwin Kiester, Jr. Phenomena, Comment & Notes: A Darkness in
Donora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Beth Py-Lieberman The Object at Hand: The Colors of
Childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bruce Watson It's More than Just a Game . . . . . . . ??
Donovan Webster Walking the Grizzlies' Road, Yellowstone
to the Yukon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert Wernick Big Sur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Highlights Calendar . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Smithsonian Highlights: An Era Ends at
High Noon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Andrea Barnet The Boys Choir of Harlem Sings a Song of
Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Lee E. Battaglia Space Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard Conniff Class Dismissed . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Les Daly Get Muddy, Save a Church . . . . . . . . ??
Helen Dudar Picturing the American Century . . . . . ??
Timothy Foote The Object at Hand: Washington Slept
Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Bill Hess Book Reviews: \em Gift of the Whale: The
Inupiat Bowhead Hunt, A Sacred
Tradition, \em Swampwalker's Journal: A
Wetlands Year, by David Carroll . . . . ??
Secretary I. Michael Heyman Smithsonian Perspectives: Looking to the
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Michael Kernan Around the Mall & Beyond: Animal Old
Folks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Per Ola and
Emily D'Aulaire Taking the Measure of Time . . . . . . . ??
Pat Paquette The Last Page: ``Coo-kees'' Are Made
with Chocolate Chips . . . . . . . . . . ??
Richard and
Joyce Wolkomir Mr. Edison Takes a Holiday . . . . . . . ??
James Trefil Phenomena, Comment & Notes: When the
Earth Froze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Scott Weidensaul The Return of the Elk . . . . . . . . . ??