Smithsonian Magazine: September 2002
Features
Uncommon Valor
When two Naval officers entered the inferno of the Pentagon's west flank to search for survivors, they put their own lives on the line
By Ken Ringle
Madam Montessori
Fifty years after her death, innovative Italian educator Maria Montessori still gets high marks
By Nancy Shute
The Limerick is Furtive and Mean...
From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses
By David Stewart
Astronomy's New Stars
Thanks to new technology, backyard stargazers have traveled light-years of late to join professionals in mapping the heavens
By Timothy Ferris
