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Smithsonian Perspectives

As the Institution grows in size and complexity, we are proceeding to decentralize and revitalize its parts

A Love Affair With Life & Smithsonian

An Editor's Note

A book from Smithsonian's editor recounts tales of writers and wars, photographers and Presidents, and the experiences of life in journalism

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Bringing Ancient Ways to Our Farmers' Fields

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The Object at Hand

The story behind the Smithsonian's display tiger leads back into tiger history, man-eating and otherwise, and back to the fact that tigers are endangered

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The Granddaddy of the Nation's Trails Began in Mexico

The Camino Real, after languishing in the shadow of the Santa Fe, the Oregon and the California trails, is finally getting its due

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Las Vegas Meets La-la Land

Inside its surreal new superhotels, the city synonymous with glitz is taking fantasy to the max and creating an escapist mecca

Zulueta

A Year-End Night of Magic in This Cuban Hill Town

Was Zulueta a place of memory or of myth? When a journalist returns to his ancestral home to find out, the fireworks cast a spell

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They Forced Martinis Down My Throat and Kept Me Prisoner All Night

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The Object at Hand

There was a time when a cane was the exclamation point to a gentleman's attire, but canes have also been put to a remarkable range of uses

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Steam Locomotives Steal the Spotlight

Photographer O. Winston Link documented the final days of steam engines on the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last main line to use them

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I Lost a Baby, and When I Got Him Back He Was a Toddler

The child was returned thanks in large part to a national clearinghouse that employs the latest technology to locate missing kids

Scene from Broken Blossoms starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess

A Film Buff Cheers the Oldies, Calling for Silents, Please!

Garbo, Chaplin, Keaton yesteryear's screen giants dazzle audiences anew at Pordenone, the world's most pretigious silent-film festival

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Winslow Homer, the Quintessential American Artist

He would chronicle it all the Civil War, the schoolyard games, the raging coast of Maine yet the man remained a mystery to the end

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Review of 'Scenes from the Life of a City'

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Review of 'Tales My Father Never Told'

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Review of 'Peculiar People: The Story of My Life'

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It Comes Out Only Once a Week, But the Sun Never Sets

Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to keep its readers hungry for more, issue after issue? Don't ask

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Smithsonian Perspectives

The National Zoo and its branch, the CRC, pioneer conservation biology and seek new ways of support

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Around the Mall & Beyond

The Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex, has yet another address: the World Wide Web

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That 'Little Armored Thing' Doesn't Get by on Looks Alone

It appears to be made out of spare parts, but the only mammal equipped with a carapace is actually a model of ecological efficiency

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