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
By Richard Covington
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?
By Helen Fields
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
By Paul Hendrickson
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
By Amei Wallach
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"
By Paul Raffaele
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
By Susan E. Tifft
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
By Pamela Constable
One Per Customer
By Smithsonian magazine
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
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
Phenomena & Curiosities
Back Home On The Range
When a group of Native Americans took up bison ranching, they brought a prairie back to life
By Leslie Allen
The Object at Hand
Romance And The Stone
A rare Burmese ruby memorializes a philanthropic woman
By Owen Edwards
Editor's Note
Trouble Spots
Two of our writers get into the thick of things in Uganda and Afghanistan
By Carey Winfrey
From the Secretary
Our Adaptable Ancestors
Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans
By Lawrence M. Small
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
By Smithsonian magazine
