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
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?
Reading Between the Lines
Scientists with high-tech tools are deciphering lost writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes
Helsinki Warming
The city of Sibelius, known as a center for innovative technology and design, now stakes its claim as an urban hotspot
Circling Squares
A 360-degree perspective on some of Europe's most alluring public spaces
Highlights & Hotspots
Some of this year's noteworthy European events
Departments
Indelible Images
Operatic Entrance
As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp
Phenomena & Curiosities
Curtains for the Pallid Sturgeon
Can biologists breed the "Dinosaurs of the Missouri" fast enough to stave off their extinction?
Presence of Mind
Next Stop, Squalor
Is poverty tourism "poorism," they call it exploration or exploitation?
From the Secretary
A Man in Full
A new biography depicts benefactor James Smithson as an exuberant, progressive man enamored of science
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