Smithsonian Magazine: February 2005

Features

Sicily Resurgent

Across the island, activists, archaeologists and historians are joining forces to preserve a cultural legacy that has endured for 3,000 years

Invasion of the Snakeheads

The voracious "Frankenfish" has turned up in the Potomac River, Lake Michigan and a California lake, sparking fears of an ecological Armageddon. But is the Asian import a monster—or the victim of monster hype?

Savoring Pie Town

Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life

Christo Does Central Park

After a quarter century's effort, the wrap artist and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, blaze a saffron trail in New York City

Uganda: The Horror

In Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted, 1.6 million people herded into camps and thousands of people killed: A dispatch from the world's "largest neglected humanitarian emergency"

Out of the Shadows

After decades of obscurity, African-American architect Julian Abele is finally getting recognition for his contributions to some of 20th-century America's most prestigious buildings

Assignment Afghanistan

From keeping tabs on the Taliban to saving puppies, a reporter looks back on her three years covering a nation's struggle to be reborn

Departments

Indelible Images

Down In Mississippi

The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement

Phenomena & Curiosities

Back Home On The Range

When a group of Native Americans took up bison ranching, they brought a prairie back to life

The Object at Hand

Romance And The Stone

A rare Burmese ruby memorializes a philanthropic woman

Editor's Note

Trouble Spots

Two of our writers get into the thick of things in Uganda and Afghanistan

From the Secretary

Our Adaptable Ancestors

Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans

This Month in History

February Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable

Lewis and Clark

A Fine Boy

With a little help from a rattlesnake's rattle, Sacagawea gives birth to a baby she names Jean Baptiste

The Last Page

Last Call

Hang-ups are an occupational hazard

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