Smithsonian Magazine: February 2007
Features
Death in Happy Valley
A son of the colonial aristocracy goes on trial for killing a poacher in Kenya, where an exploding human population is heightening tensions and stretching resources to the breaking point
By Richard Conniff
Harvesting Tourists
In this Q & A, Richard Conniff, author of "Death in Happy Valley," argues that tourism, not cattle-ranching, would be a better use of Kenyan land
By Amy Crawford
The Pardon
President Gerald R. Ford's priority was to unite a divided nation. The decision that defined his term proved how difficult that would be
By Barry Werth
The Vanishing
Little noticed by the outside world, perhaps the most dramatic decline of a wild animal in history has been taking place in India and Pakistan. Large vultures, vitally necessary and once numbering in the tens of millions, now face extinction. But why?
By Susan McGrath
Faces of War
Amid the horrors of World War I, a corps of artists brought hope to soldiers disfigured in the trenches
By Caroline Alexander
Rivaling Nature
The war in Iraq has increased demand for limb and facial plastic surgeons
By Caroline Alexander
Ahead in the Clouds
Susan Solomon helped patch the ozone hole. Now, as a leader of a major United Nations report—out this month—she's going after global warming
By Virginia Morell
Incurably Romantic
For much of the 20th century, Britain's Pre-Raphaelite were dismissed as overly sentimental. A new exhibition shows why they're back in favor
By Doug Stewart
Departments
Indelible Images
Fallen Giant
"A whole lifetime was over," legendary quarterback Y.A. Tittle recalls
By Michael Shapiro
My Kind of Town
Boys' Life
In 1950s Des Moines, childhood was "unsupervised, unregulated and robustly physical"
By Bill Bryson
Digs
Sea Island Strata
At a former Georgia plantation, archaeologists delve into both the workaday and spiritual lives of slaves.
By Eric Wills
Tribute
Famous Once Again
Longfellow reaches his bicentennial; here's why his poems became perennial
By Nicholas A. Basbanes
Wild Things
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Flying mammals, Galápagos iguanas and sidewalk songbirds
By Smithsonian magazine
From the Secretary
Out of Africa
This month a special collectionârepresenting most of Africa's major artistic traditionsâgoes spectacularly on view
By Lawrence M. Small
The Object at Hand
Pas de Deux
Joseph Cornell turned his obsession with a prima ballerina into art
By Owen Edwards
