Smithsonian Magazine: February 2004
Features
Rescuing Angkor
An unprecedented effort to reclaim the ancient temples from the Cambodian jungle is racing against a tourist onslaught
By Richard Covington
Fury Over a Gentle Giant
Floridians raise a ruckus over manatees as biologists weigh prospects for the endangered species' survival
By Craig Pittman
Romare Bearden: Man of Many Parts
A new exhibition showcases Bearden's innovative collages and stakes a claim for him in the pantheon of 20th-century American artists
By Paul Trachtman
Lord Nelson: Hero and...Cad!
A cache of recently discovered letters darkens the British naval warrior's honor and enhances that of his long-suffering wife, Frances
By Michael Ryan
Baghdad Beyond the Headlines
From gleeful schoolkids to a literary scholar who loves Humphrey Bogart, a photographer captures a reawakening but still wary city
By Lois Raimondo
The Mad Potter of Biloxi
Self-styled eccentric George E. Ohr's wild, weird, wonderful pots gathered dust in a garage for half a century. Now architect Frank Gehry is designing a museum dedicated to the artist who made them
By Bruce Watson
Digging into a Historic Rivalry
As archaeologists unearth a secret slave passageway used by abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, scholars reevaluate his reputation and that of his neighbors and nemesis, James Buchanan
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Departments
Points of Interest
Maine's Lost Colony
Archeologists uncover an early American settlement that history forgot
By Myron Beckenstein
Indelible Images
Winner by a Decision
When Sonny Liston decided not to meet the Beatles 40 years ago, photographer Harry Benson pulled a switcheroo
By Robert Lipsyte
Phenomena & Curiosities
Gas Guzzlers
New research shows how microscopic diatoms remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and may help keep the planet from overheating
By Deborah Franklin
The Object at Hand
Special Delivery
In the 1900s, health officials believed that puncturing supposedly disease-infested mail and then fumigating it slowed the spread of illness
By Ed Leibowitz
From the Secretary
Will Power
Estate bequests by donors past and present keep the world's largest museum and research complex humming
By Lawrence M. Small
Lewis and Clark
A Sumpcious Dinner
William Clark—a better explorer than speller—tells his older brother of the impending transfer of the Louisiana Territory to the United States
By Smithsonian magazine
