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
The Object at Hand
The Flight Stuff
Amelia Earhart brought her own special styleeven to her outerwear
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