Smithsonian Magazine: October 2005

Features

ANWR: The Great Divide

The renewed debate over drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge hits home for the two Native groups nearest the nature preserve
By Scott Wallace

The Dying of the Dead Sea

The ancient salt sea is the site of a looming environmental catastrophe
By Joshua Hammer

Matisse and His Models

The author of a new biography of the artist argues that the women he painted were full partners in the creative enterprise
By Hilary Spurling

Hiding in Plain Sight

A veteran photographer shows the extraordinary knack that some animals have for...disappearing
By Laura Helmuth

The Glory That Is Rome

Thanks to renovations of its classical venues, the Eternal City has never looked better
By Tony Perrottet

Building A Better Banana

It is the world's No. 1 fruit, with millions of people dependent on it to stay alive. Now diseases threaten many varieties, prompting a search for new hybrids of the "smile of nature"
By Craig Canine

Departments

Indelible Images

Fashion Faux Paw

Richard Avedon's photograph of a beauty and the beasts is marred, he believed, by one failing
By Owen Edwards

Phenomena & Curiosities

Oh Deer!

Contraception shows promise, but other measures may be needed to lessen the toll that the deer boom is having on forests and suburbs
By Anne Broache

The Object at Hand

Broad Shoulders

When union leader Cesar Chavez organized the nation's farmworkers, he launched a movement that changed history
By Owen Edwards

Digs

Dive Bomber

Underwater archaeologists ready a crashed B-29 for visits by scuba-wearing tourists at the bottom of Lake Mead.
By Julian Smith

The Object at Hand

People's Choice

Almost from birth, Andrew Jackson was in training to become democracy's champion
By H. W. Brands

Editor's Note

Entangling Alliances

From Alaska to France, kindred spirits find common ground
By Carey Winfrey

From the Secretary

Wealth of a Nation

An exhibition of portraits from Latin America highlights the region's many contributions to U.S. cultural life
By Lawrence M. Small

Lewis and Clark

Push to the Pacific

Guided by the Nez Percé, the men and women of the corps reach the Columbia amid threats for their lives
By Smithsonian magazine

This Month in History

This Month in History

October anniversaries—momentous or merely memorable
By Smithsonian magazine

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