Smithsonian Magazine: February 2006

Features

A Return to the Reefs

With the world's coral reefs in crisis, the author's childhood memories guide a far-reaching study of the problem in the Bahamas
By Gordon Chaplin

Forgotten Forest

Photographic plates discovered in a dusty shed offer an astonishing look at life in the American woods more than a century ago
By Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell

Resurrecting Pompeii

A new exhibition brings the doomed residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum vividly to life
By Doug Stewart

In John They Trust

South Pacific villagers worship a mysterious American they call John Frum - believing he'll one day shower their remote island with riches
By Paul Raffaele

Mozart: In Search of the Roots of Genius

On the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, the author scours Salzburg and Vienna for traces of the master's mischievous spirit
By Edward Rothstein

Departments

Indelible Images

A Soldier's Story

After more than a decade of warfare, Joseph Duo is finding that peace takes some getting used to
By Christine Dell'Amore

People File

Medical Sleuth

To prosecutors, it was child abuse - an Amish baby covered in bruises, but Dr. D. Holmes Morton had other ideas
By Tom Shachtman

Presence of Mind

A Lesson In Hate

How an Egyptian student came to study 1950s America and left determined to wage holy war
By David Von Drehle

Editor's Note

Worlds Apart

Change and constance on sceptered isles
By Carey Winfrey

Books

Every Book Its Reader

The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World, by Nicholas A. Basbanes
By Reviewed by Kathleen Burke

The Last Page

Bilingual By Breakfast

Only one thing stood between the author and the hojaldras of her desire
By Leigh Ann Henion

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