Smithsonian Magazine: June 2005
Features
Hazy Days In Our Parks
The air in many national wilderness wonderlands is getting worse. As officials debate controversial new rules to curb pollution, scientists find the sources are surprisingly far-flung
Boar War
A marauding hog bites the dust in a border dispute between the United States and Britain that fails to turn ugly
Animal Magnetism
Gregory Colbert's haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the United States, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures
Killers In Paradise
The tropics are home to the world's most venomous creatures-jellyfish with 4 brains, 24 eyes and stingers that can kill you in a minute flat
Cross Purposes
Mexican immigrants are defying expectations in this country-and changing the landscape back home
King Tut: The Pharaoh Returns!
An exhibition featuring the first CT scans of the boy king's mummy tells us more about Tutankhamun than ever before
The Year Of Albert Einstein
His dizzying discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid all the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math
Departments
Indelible Images
Chief Lobbyist
He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers.
Points of Interest
Rhyme or Cut Bait
When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away
Uncategorized
Your Branch or Mine?
Fireflies' come-hither signals are being decoded by penlight-wielding biologists who've found treachery, also, in the summer-night flashes
People File
Glyph Dweller
Archaeologist Alanah Woody's infectious enthusiasm for Nevada's rock art knows no bounds
From the Secretary
Reversing the Clock
Taking care of the nation's treasures requires art, history and even molecular science
Lewis and Clark
A Fork in the River
After deliberating for nine days, the captains choose the tortuous southwest branch of the Missouri toward the Great Falls
The Last Page
Lucky Man
A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace
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