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 anniversariesmomentous or merely memorable
By Smithsonian magazine
