Smithsonian Magazine: July 2007

Features

Save the Casbah

In Algiers, preservationists race to rescue the storied quarter. But is it too late?

100 Days That Shook the World

The all-but-forgotten story of the unlikely hero who ensured victory in the American Revolution

Chronicling the Ice

Long before global warming became a cause célà¨bre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought

Reboot

A photojournalist enchanted by computers takes another look at the soul of some old machines

Hopper

Mystery. Longing. A whole new way of seeing. A stunning retrospective reminds us why the enigmatic American artist retains his power

Departments

Indelible Images

Behind the Veil

Photographer Alen MacWeeney wanted to see Ireland's Travellers as they were

My Kind of Town

"Mad, Stark Mad"

Thirty-five years after "defecting" to the Barbary Coast, the bestselling novelist still loves his city by the bay

Wild Things

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Mystery trees, loggerhead turtles and Brooklyn

This Month in History

July Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

From the Castle

From the Castle

Life on the Web

The Object at Hand

The Flight Stuff

Amelia Earhart brought her own special style—even to her outerwear

What's Up

What's Up

Tiffany diamonds, Portugal and "Great Britons"

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