Smithsonian Magazine: September 2006
Features
Sleeping with Cannibals
Our intrepid reporter gets up close and personal with New Guinea natives who say they still eat their fellow tribesmen.
By Paul Raffaele
To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare
While skeptics continue to question the authorship of his plays, a new exhibition raises doubts about the authenticity of his portraits.
By Doug Stewart
Folio, Where Art Thou?
One man's quest to track down every copy on the planet.
By Paul Collins
Cougars on the Move
Mountain lions are thought to be multiplying in the West and heading east. Can we learn to live with these beautiful, elusive creatures?
By Steve Kemper
The Queen Who Would Be King
Mummy dearest? Recent scholarship is changing thinking about female pharaoh Hatshepsut, whom Egyptologists once called "the vilest type of usurper."
By Elizabeth B. Wilson
Storm Warnings
Is global warming to blame for the intensity of recent Atlantic hurricanes? While experts debate that question, they agree that more devastating tempests are headed our way.
By J. Madeleine Nash
Steeped in History
New York's breathtaking Finger Lakes district has inspired American notables from Mark Twain to Harriet Tubman.
By Jonathan Kandell
Author Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill, author of "Downtown: My Manhattan," discusses what makes New York home.
By Courtney Jordan
Encore! Encore!
Lorenzo Da Ponte was a hit in Europe: a courtier, a cad, the librettist for Mozart's finest operas. But the New World truly tested his creative powers.
By Christopher Porterfield
Departments
Indelible Images
Through the Mill
Because of a Lewis Hine photograph, Addie Card became the poster child of child labor. But what became of Addie Card?
By Elizabeth Winthrop
My Kind of Town
Five Years Later
Tourists flock to the World Trade Center site, but for New Yorkers, 9/11 is history.
By Pete Hamill
From the Secretary
Trailblazers
This month, pandas and other exotic creatures go on view at the National Zoo's new Asia Trail.
By Lawrence M. Small
Q&A
Steve Fossett
On March 3, 2005, after 67 hours aboard his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, he became the first person to fly alone around the world nonstop.
By Katy June-Friesen
Interview
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Her new book says our views of Africa are outdated.
By Amy Crawford
Wild Things
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
An Australian conservation group uses Hubble space telescope software to identify animals by their markings
By Amanda Bensen, Kenneth R. Fletcher, T.A. Frail, Karen Larkins and Sarah Zielinski
The Last Page
Last Page: The Wrath of Khan
Even IRS auditors will tremble in my presence.
By Bruce McCall
