Articles

Some boaters complain of too many manatees. But biologists (such as Cathy Beck, with some of the 100,000 manatee photos in the U.S.G.S.'s archive) say there may be too few.

Fury Over a Gentle Giant

Floridians raise a ruckus over manatees as biologists weigh prospects for the endangered species' survival

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Gas Guzzlers

New research shows how microscopic diatoms remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and may help keep the planet from overheating

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Rescuing Angkor

An unprecedented effort to reclaim the ancient temples from the Cambodian jungle is racing against a tourist onslaught

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Top Dogs

The Polar Inuit's bond with the sled dog remains intact, thanks to a ban on snowmobiles. But the lure of technology threatens these "magnificent animals"

A Bantu refugee boy in Florida

Coming to America

A Somali Bantu refugee family leaves 19th-century travails behind in Africa to take up life in 21st-century Phoenix

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Vieques on the Verge

The Navy is gone; the bombing has stopped. What happens to Puerto Rico's Vieques now?

Photo of James Rosenquist

Big!

Pop artist James Rosenquist returns to the limelight with a dazzling retrospective of his larger-than-life works

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Shooting Stars

Photographer Jack Pashkovsky disarmed Hollywood's royalty with his ardor and persistence

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Riding the Steppes

A 1,000-mile odyssey across Mongolia on horseback

Britannia offers solace and a promise of compensation for her exiled American-born Loyalists

Divided Loyalties

Descended from American Colonists who fled north rather than join the revolution, Canada's Tories still raise their tankards to King George

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Policing America's Ports

19,000 cargo containers flowing into the US each day pose a needle-in-the-haystack challenge to security officials worried about hidden terrorist weapons

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Profile in Courage

Fifteen years later, a photograph of an anonymous protester facing down a row of tanks in Beijing's Tiananmen Square still inspires astonishment

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Looking For a Few Good Men

While the budding Corps of Discovery plans the expedition near St. Louis, William Clark grades the recruits

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Variety Show

Off and running in the new year

Fascinating Relics

Smithsonian's wide-ranging mummy collection still speaks to us from centuries past

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Say Again?

Priceless wisdom that changed my life

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Reading Faces

Is that a scowl or just disgust? Facial expressions can be harder to interpret than most of us realize, but help is on the way

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Sleepless in Hawaii

Insomniac islanders are hopping mad over a tiny frog from that threatens their fragile ecosystem

Chagall's Midsummer Night's Dream.

The Elusive Marc Chagall

With his wild and whimsical imagery, the Russian-born artist bucked the trends of 20th-century art

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Jazzed About Roy Haynes

A robust 78, one of the greatest drummers of all time still riffs up a storm and wows fellow musicians

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