Smithsonian Magazine: March 2006

Features

Everglades

The nation's storied wetland is the focus of the world's largest environmental restoration project. But will that be enough?
By Michael Grunwald

Edvard Munch: Beyond The Scream

Though the Norwegian artist is known for a single image, he was one of the most prolific, innovative and influential figures in modern art
By Arthur Lubow

Secrets of the Range Creek Ranch

Archaeologists cheered when Waldo Wilcox's vast spread was deeded to the state of Utah, believing that it holds keys to a tribe that flourished 1,000 years ago - and then mysteriously vanished.
By Keith Kloor

Continental Crossroads

East greets West as Hungary's history-rich capital embraces the future
By Jonathan Kandell

Bone Voyage

On assignment with Europe's most peripatetic canine
By Jennifer Drapkin

Dresden's Crowning Glory

Sixty years after it was reduced to rubble by Allied bombing, the reconstructed Baroque Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady, once again dominates the historic city's skyline
By Andrew Curry

Ben Franklin Slept Here

The ingenious founding father's only surviving residence, in London, is reborn as a museum
By Simon Worrall

Highlights & Hot Spots

By Smithsonian magazine

Departments

Indelible Images

The Power of Prayer

A news photographer in India captures a devotional moment that goes back a thousand years
By Maura Moynihan

Points of Interest

The Best and Brightest

A small museum illuminates Las Vegas' past by restoring the city's classic neon signs
By Lauren Wilcox

The Object at Hand

Visionary Virtuoso

Ray Charles' fusion of gospel and blues changed the face of American popular music
By Owen Edwards

Digs

Spain Makes a Stand

After more than 400 years, a fort built by conquistadors in the Carolinas has finally been found
By Andrew Lawler

Phenomena & Curiosities

City Slinkers

Why are coyotes, those cunning denizens of the plains and rural west, moving into urban centers like Chicago and Washington DC?
By Christine Dell'Amore

Editor's Note

Have Canine, Will Travel

Our fur-flung correspondents in dogged pursuit
By Carey Winfrey

From the Secretary

Field Trip!

Education experts help children, their teachers, parents and grandparents get the most out of a museum visit - real or virtual
By Lawrence M. Small, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Wild Things

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

By Smithsonian magazine

This Month in History

March Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable
By Chai Woodham

Books

The Worst Hard Time

The untold story of those who survived the great American Dust Bowl
By Kathleen Burke

The Last Page

Global Wording

If you can't say it in English, just borrow le mot juste
By Adam Jacot de Boinod

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