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
By Charles Petit
Boar War
A marauding hog bites the dust in a border dispute between the United States and Britain that fails to turn ugly
By Deborah Franklin
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
By Cathleen McGuigan
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
By Paul Raffaele
Cross Purposes
Mexican immigrants are defying expectations in this country-and changing the landscape back home
By Jonathan Kandell
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
By Richard Covington
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
By Richard Panek
Departments
Indelible Images
Chief Lobbyist
He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers.
By Anne Broache
Points of Interest
Rhyme or Cut Bait
When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away
By Sharon Boorstin
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
By Jessica Gorman
People File
Glyph Dweller
Archaeologist Alanah Woody's infectious enthusiasm for Nevada's rock art knows no bounds
By Christopher Hall
From the Secretary
Reversing the Clock
Taking care of the nation's treasures requires art, history and even molecular science
By Lawrence M. Small
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
By Smithsonian magazine
Around the Mall
A Bear-Handed Grab
How a stranded cub became the living symbol for one of America's best-known advertising campaigns
By Anne Broache
Around the Mall
Getting Kids to Eat Their Veggies
Chef Alice Waters has an edible school project: getting children to eat more homegrown fruits and vegetables
By Anne Broache
The Last Page
Lucky Man
A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace
By Denis Collins
