Smithsonian Magazine: December 2007
Features
Keepers of the Lost Ark?
Christians in Ethiopia have long claimed to have the ark of the covenant. Our reporter investigated
Christmas in Lalibela
50,000 pilgrims descend on Ethiopia's "new" Jerusalem
Ike at D-Day
The rain he worried about. The Camel cigarettes he chain-smoked. The letter he wrote in case of failure. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's defining moment comes to life in an excerpt from Michael Korda's best-selling new biography.
Miami Splash
Art Basel Miami Beach is a giant fair that's fueling the city's explosive arts scene
The Strange Lives of Polar Dinosaurs
How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?
Taking a Dinosaur's Temperature
Polar species heat up one of paleontology's great debates
Revolutionary Real Estate
Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived
Marseille's Ethnic Bouillabaisse
Some view Europe's most diverse city as a laboratory of the continent's future
Departments
Around the Mall
Up in Smoke
Amazon research that has withstood thieves and arsonists now faces its greatest challenge
The Object at Hand
Growth Industry
For 26 years, marketing whiz Joe Pedott's green-pelted figures have been holiday-season hits
Q&A
Jenny Holzer
The artist Jenny Holzer created For SAAM, a column of light and text, for the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
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