Smithsonian Magazine: March 2007
Features
Rain Forest Rebel
In the Amazon, researchers documenting the ways of native peoples join forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness
By Joshua Hammer
Catching Up With "Old Slow Trot"
Stubborn and deliberate, General George Henry Thomas was one of the Union's most brilliant strategists. So why was he cheated by history?
By Ernest B. Furgurson
Reading Between the Lines
Scientists with high-tech tools are deciphering lost writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes
By Mary K. Miller
Helsinki Warming
The city of Sibelius, known as a center for innovative technology and design, now stakes its claim as an urban hotspot
By Jonathan Kandell
Circling Squares
A 360-degree perspective on some of Europe's most alluring public spaces
By David Zax
Highlights & Hotspots
Some of this year's noteworthy European events
By Amy Crawford
Departments
Indelible Images
Operatic Entrance
As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp
By David J. Marcou
Phenomena & Curiosities
Curtains for the Pallid Sturgeon
Can biologists breed the "Dinosaurs of the Missouri" fast enough to stave off their extinction?
By Sam Hooper Samuels
Presence of Mind
Next Stop, Squalor
Is poverty tourism "poorism," they call it exploration or exploitation?
By John Lancaster
Wild Things
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Gray seals, alligators and the world's largest flower
By Smithsonian magazine
From the Secretary
A Man in Full
A new biography depicts benefactor James Smithson as an exuberant, progressive man enamored of science
By Lawrence M. Small
The Object at Hand
Comedy Central
The stand up comic's archive holds a lifetime of proven punch lines
By Owen Edwards
