Smithsonian Magazine: July 2006
Features
Back To The Future
One of Washington's most exuberant monuments—the old Patent Office Building —gets the renovation it deserves.
By Adam Goodheart
Grand Reopening: Speaking of Art
Two museums return home and invite visitors to engage in "conversations."
By Arthur Lubow
Building An Arc
Despite poachers, insurgents and political upheaval, India and Nepal's bold approach to saving wildlife in the Terai Arc just may succeed.
By John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin
A Mystery Fit For A Pharaoh
The first tomb to be discovered in the Valley of the Kings since King Tut's is raising new questions for archaeologists about ancient Egypt's burial practices
By Andrew Lawler
Finding a Home in the Cosmos
In a new book written with his wife, Nancy Abrams, cosmologist Joel Primack argues that the universe, far from being a meaningless void, was meant for us. Sort of.
By Jerry Adler
Wild in the Yukon
A Danish photographer goes the extra mile to document wildlife in one of North America's most remote, most pristing areas, now coveted by mining and oil companies.
By Frank Clifford
Berried Treasure
Why is horticulturalist Harry Jan Swartz so determined to grow an exotic strawberry beloved by Jane Austen?
By David Karp
Pamplona: No Bull
Forget Hemingway's bovine madness: this charming medieval town hosts the most misunderstood public party in the world - the festival of Sam Fermin.
By Erla Zwingle
Departments
Indelible Images
Last Hurrah
Everyone wanted to see the Babe the day they retired his number; photographer Nat Fein saw the story.
By Leigh Montville
My Kind of Town
A City Called Heaven
America's best-known oral historian tells his own story.
By Studs Terkel
Presence of Mind
What's Eating America
Corn is one of the plant kingdom's biggest successes. That's not necessarily good for the United States.
By Michael Pollan
From the Secretary
Patent Pending
After a glorious renovation the old Patent Office Building opens its doors anew.
By Lawrence M. Small
The Object at Hand
Camelot
In the mid-1800's, "ships of the desert" reported for duty in the Southwest.
By Owen Edwards
Q&A
Q&A: Cheryl Henson
Museum will exhibit Jim Henson's first puppets and such classics as Kermit the Frog. Cheryl Henson, Henson's daughter and a muppet designer, spoke with Smithsonian's Jennifer Drapkin.
By Jennifer Drapkin
Wild Things
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Monkey talk, reptilian altruism, anemone stings, aquatic crabs, and Thyrohyrax.
By Smithsonian magazine
Interview
Joe Robinson, Vacation Advocate, Santa Monica, Calif.
His prescription for overworked Americans: chill
By Jennifer Drapkin
