Smithsonian Magazine: April 2007
Features
Raising Alexandria
More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded the city, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains, from the likely site of Cleopatra's palace to pieces of an astonishing lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the World
By Andrew Lawler
City of the Imagination
Andrew Lawler, author of "Raising Alexandria" talks about the hidden history of Egypt's fabled seaside capital
By Amy Crawford
Curse of the Devil's Dogs
Traditionally viewed as dangerous pests, Africa's wild dogs have nearly been wiped out. But thanks to new conservation efforts, the smart, sociable canines appear ready to make a comeback
By Paul Raffaele
Digitizing the Hanging Court
Cutpurses! Blackguards! Fallen women! The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is an epic chronicle of crime and vice in early London. Now anyone with a computer can search all 52 million words
By Guy Gugliotta
The Zuni Way
Though they embrace computers and TV, the secret of the tribe's unity lies in fealty to their past
By Virginia Morell
The Nature of Glass
Prolific sculptor Dale Chihuly plants his vitreous visions in a Florida garden
By David Zax
Barbaro's Legacy
The effort to save the fallen champion shows how far equine medicine has come in recent years. And how far it still has to go
By Steve Twomey
Departments
Indelible Images
The Deciding Moment
A newly published scrapbook of Henri Cartier-Bresson's early photographs is changing some notions about how he worked
By Sarah Boxer
Digs
Lost City of Powhatan
The Algonquian settlement crucial to the survival of Jamestown 400 years ago has been found. Finally
By Andrew Lawler
Points of Interest
Open Sesame
Conspiracy buffs tour the lavish Washington, D.C. temple of the Freemasons, one of the world's most mysterious fraternities
By David A. Taylor
Presence of Mind
Two Men and a Portrait
One wondered how an artist brings paint to life. The other showed him
By William Zinsser
Wild Things
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Ape tools, flying dinosaurs and emperor penguins
By Smithsonian magazine
Interview
Roy Richard Grinker
His new book offers a scholar's and father's perspective on autism
By Arthur Allen
From the Secretary
Hot Topics
An ice-diving course in Svalbard, Norway in only the tip of the Smithsonian science iceberg
By Lawrence M. Small
The Object at Hand
Flower Power
An imaginative installation recalls an all-but-forgotten art movement
By Owen Edwards
