Smithsonian Magazine: January 2002
Features
Hero for Our Time
Challenged to prove his germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur shaped the terrain on which the battle against anthrax is being fought
By Paul Trachtman
Marco Polo's Guide to Afghanistan
Two Americans retrace the steps of the 13th-century Italian merchant through a harsh land of tough, hospitable people
By Francis O'Donnell and Denis Belliveau,
Just Folk
From samplers to sugar bowls, weathervanes to whistles, an engaging exhibition heralds the opening of the American Folk Art Museum's new home in Manhattan
By Doug Stewart
Tiger Tracks
Revisiting his old haunts in Nepal, the author looks for tigers and finds a clever new strategy for saving them
By John Seidensticker
Tigers at the Gate
By Jim Doherty
What's for Dinner?
By Christian Harlan Moen
Master of Middle Earth
When J.R.R. Tolkien finally completed his Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1949, the Oxford don scarcely imagined his fantasy epic would entrance 100 million readers
By Alina Corday Taylor
Silk Robes and Cell Phones
Three decades after Frances FitzGerald won a Pulitzer Prize for Fire in the Lake, her classic work on Vietnam, she returned with photojournalist Mary Cross. In an adaptation from their new book, Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth, they document a dynamic society holding on to its precolonial past as it confronts the 21st century.
By Frances Fitzgerald
Departments
From the Editor
Behind the Lines: Close Calls
Danger comes with the territory for our writers
By Carey Winfrey
Phenomena & Curiosities
Dragonfly Dramas
Desert Whitetails and Flame Skimmers cavort in the sinkholes of New Mexico's Bitter Lake Refuge
By Jake Page
Presence of Mind
Prince of Tides
Before "ecology" became a buzzword, John Steinbeck preached that man is related to the whole thing
By Bil Gilbert
