Smithsonian Magazine: September 2003
Features
Defusing Africa's Killer Lakes
In a remote region of Cameroon, an international team of scientists takes extraordinary steps to prevent the recurrence of a deadly natural disaster
By Kevin Krajick
Two Weeks at Camp David
There was no love lost between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. But at the very brink of failure, they found a way to reach agreement
By Bob Cullen
Beacon of Light
Groundbreaking art shines at the extraordinary new Dia: Beacon museum on New York's Hudson River
By Amei Wallach
Keeping Up with Mark Twain
Berkeley researchers toil to stay abreast of Samuel Clemens' enormous literary output, which appears to continue unabated
By Ron Powers
Focus on the Blues
Richard Waterman's never-before-published photographs caught the roots music legends at their down-home best
By David Friend
Eureka!
Accident and serendipity played their parts in the inventions of penicillin, the World Wide Web and the Segway super scooter. But as Louis Pasteur once noted, "Chance favors only the prepared mind"
By Ken Chowder
A Walk Across England
In the 1970s, British accountant Alfred Wainwright linked back roads, rights-of-way and ancient footpaths to blaze a beguiling trail across the sceptered isle
By Michael Parfit
Departments
Indelible Images
September 11 From a Brooklyn Rooftop
Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the "continuity of life in the face of disaster"
By Paul Maliszewski
The Object at Hand
Dressed to Kill
In beating the pants off Bobby Riggs, Billie Jean King inspired feminists and fashionistas alike
By Ed Leibowitz
Phenomena & Curiosities
Uncle Sam's Dolphins
In the Iraq war, highly trained cetaceans helped U.S. forces clear mines in Umm Qasr's harbor
By William Gasperini
People File
Talking to Horses
Stanford Addison uses intuition, compassion and persistence to "break" wild horses
By Lisa Jones
Presence of Mind
Stopping a Scourge
No one knows if SARS will strike again. But researchers' speedy work halting the epidemic makes a compelling case study of how to combat a deadly virus
By David Brown
From the Secretary
Man's Reach
The Cooper-Hewitt explores the wide-ranging impact of historical and contemporary designs
By Lawrence M. Small
Books
James Smithson's legacy
The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum
By Smithsonian magazine
