Smithsonian Magazine: January 2005
Features
Stop the Carnage
A pistol-packing American scientist puts his life on the line to reduce "the most serious threat to African wildlife"the illegal hunting of animals for foodand to STOP THE CARNAGE
Rethinking Jamestown
America's first permanent colonists have long been considered lazy and incompetent. But new evidence suggests that it was a prolonged droughtnot indolencethat almost did them in
Return of a Virtuoso
Following a debilitating stroke, the incomparable jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had to start over
James Boswell's Scotland
The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth
The Aztecs: Blood and Glory
A new exhibition probes the contradictions of an advanced civilization that practiced human sacrifice
Cabin Fever
As Muscovites get rich on oil, dachasthe rustic country houses that nourish the Russian soulget gaudy
Washington Takes Charge
Confronting the British in Boston in 1775, Gen. George Washington honed the personal qualities that would carry the day in war and sustain the new nation in peace
Departments
Indelible Images
Coming Home
To a war-weary nation, a U.S. POW's return from captivity in Vietnam in 1973 looked like the happiest of reunions
Digs
Ahead of Its Time?
Founded by a freed slave, an Illinois town was a rare example of biracial cooperation before the Civil War
The Object at Hand
Freeze Frame
Beginning in the 1880s, amateur photographer Wilson A. Bentley revealed the hidden structure of falling flakes
From the Secretary
Tiny Treasures
From mosquitoes to mementos, the smallest items in the Smithsonian's collections can be the most useful
Lewis and Clark
Dangerous Liaisons
Severe cold and fraternizing with the Mandan keep Meriwether Lewis' doctoring in demand
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