Smithsonian Magazine: November 2005
Features
35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis
In Katrina's aftermath, the trumpeter has rallied support for his native New Orleans
By Tom Piazza
35 Who Made a Difference: Bill Gates
The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet
By Jimmy Carter
35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin
An ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation
By Elizabeth Royte
35 Who Made a Difference: Richard Leakey
The leader of the Hominid Gang asks what he can do for his continent
By Virginia Morell
35 Who Made a Difference: Clyde Roper
He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive
By Richard Ellis
35 Who Made a Difference: Jane Mt. Pleasant
Iroquois tradition plus Western science equals a more sustainable future
By Gary Paul Nabhan
35 Who Made a Difference: Andy Goldsworthy
Using nature as his canvas, the artist creates works of transcendent beauty
By Arthur Lubow
35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Langridge
His quest to peer into the essence of life no longer seems so strange
By Terence Monmaney
35 Who Made a Difference: Daphne Sheldrick
When feelings of kinship transcend the species boundary
By Douglas Chadwick
35 Who Made a Difference: Julie Taymor
Transcending genres, the designer and director creates shamanistic theater
By Edward Rothstein
35 Who Made a Difference: Wendell Berry
A Kentucky poet draws inspiration from the land that sustains him
By Paul Trachtman
35 Who Made a Difference: Edward O. Wilson
Vindicated for his controversial sociobiology? Yes. Satisfied? Not yet
By Robert Wright
35 Who Made a Difference: John Dobson
Come one, come all. Share the sky with the father of sidewalk astronomy
By Don Moser
35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Lehner
He took the blue-collar approach to the great monuments of Egypt
By Alexander Stille
35 Who Made a Difference: Sally Ride
A generation later, the first female astronaut is still on a mission
By K.C. Cole
35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson
Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning
By Robin Marantz Henig
35 Who Made a Difference: Renée Fleming
The soprano is renowned for her beguiling voice and presence
By Stephen Hastings
35 Who Made a Difference: David Attenborough
The natural history filmmaker has brought serious science to a global audience
By Frans Lanting
35 Who Made a Difference: David Attenborough
The natural history filmmaker has brought serious science to a global audience
By Frans Lanting
35 Who Made a Difference: James Watson
After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?
By Smithsonian magazine
35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson
In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture
By Craig Canine
35 Who Made a Difference: Maya Angelou
By singing of her own hardships, she has given strength to others
By Richard Long
35 Who Made a Difference: Yo-Yo Ma
Humanitarian, globe-trotting teacher, good sport, ice-dancing fan and heckuva nice guy. Oh, and he plays the cello
By Joshua Kosman
35 Who Made a Difference: Ed Bearss
On any battlefield, he strikes the mystic chords of memory
By Adam Goodheart
35 Who Made a Difference: Frank Gehry
The architect's daring, outside-the-box buildings have revitalized urban spaces
By Robert Duffy
35 Who Made a Difference: Janis Carter
The primate who taught other primates how to survive in the wild
By Douglas Foster
35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Moses
A former civil rights activist revolutionizes the teaching of mathematics
By Neil Henry
35 Who Made a Difference: Maya Lin
The architect melds surface simplicity and underlying intellectual complexity into works of enduring power
By Michael Parfit
35 Who Made a Difference: Douglas Owsley
Dead people tell no tales—but their bones do, when he examines them
By Aaron Elkins
35 Who Made a Difference: Steven Spielberg
A renowned director contemplates the lessons of history
By Kenneth Turan
Innovators of Our Time
We mark Smithsonian's 35th anniversary by revisiting scientists, artists and scholars who've enriched the magazine and our lives
By The Editors
Departments
Indelible Images
A Night at the Opera
Weegee's wartime snapshot was widely seen as social criticism, but it was, in fact, a farce
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Presence of Mind
After the Deluge
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a writer looks back at the repercussions of another great disaster, the Mississippi flood of 1927
By John M. Barry
Editor's Note
Noxious Bogs & Amorous Elephants
Smithsonian's birth, 35 years ago, only hinted at the splendors to follow
By Carey Winfrey
From the Secretary
One of a Kind
From the beginning, Smithsonian has looked beyond the Institution
By Lawrence M. Small, Secretary
