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November 2005
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Features
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35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis
In Katrina's aftermath, the trumpeter has rallied support for his native New Orleans
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35 Who Made a Difference: Bill Gates
The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet
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35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin
An ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation
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35 Who Made a Difference: Richard Leakey
The leader of the Hominid Gang asks what he can do for his continent
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35 Who Made a Difference: Clyde Roper
He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive
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35 Who Made a Difference: Jane Mt. Pleasant
Iroquois tradition plus Western science equals a more sustainable future
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35 Who Made a Difference: Andy Goldsworthy
Using nature as his canvas, the artist creates works of transcendent beauty
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35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Langridge
His quest to peer into the essence of life no longer seems so strange
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35 Who Made a Difference: Daphne Sheldrick
When feelings of kinship transcend the species boundary
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35 Who Made a Difference: Julie Taymor
Transcending genres, the designer and director creates shamanistic theater
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35 Who Made a Difference: Wendell Berry
A Kentucky poet draws inspiration from the land that sustains him
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35 Who Made a Difference: Edward O. Wilson
Vindicated for his controversial sociobiology? Yes. Satisfied? Not yet
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35 Who Made a Difference: John Dobson
Come one, come all. Share the sky with the father of sidewalk astronomy
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35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Lehner
He took the blue-collar approach to the great monuments of Egypt
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35 Who Made a Difference: Sally Ride
A generation later, the first female astronaut is still on a mission
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35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson
Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning
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35 Who Made a Difference: Renée Fleming
The soprano is renowned for her beguiling voice and presence
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35 Who Made a Difference: David Attenborough
The natural history filmmaker has brought serious science to a global audience
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35 Who Made a Difference: James Watson
After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?
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35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson
In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture
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35 Who Made a Difference: Maya Angelou
By singing of her own hardships, she has given strength to others
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35 Who Made a Difference: Yo-Yo Ma
Humanitarian, globe-trotting teacher, good sport, ice-dancing fan and heckuva nice guy. Oh, and he plays the cello
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35 Who Made a Difference: Ed Bearss
On any battlefield, he strikes the mystic chords of memory
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35 Who Made a Difference: Frank Gehry
The architect's daring, outside-the-box buildings have revitalized urban spaces
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35 Who Made a Difference: Janis Carter
The primate who taught other primates how to survive in the wild
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35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Moses
A former civil rights activist revolutionizes the teaching of mathematics
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35 Who Made a Difference: Maya Lin
The architect melds surface simplicity and underlying intellectual complexity into works of enduring power
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35 Who Made a Difference: Douglas Owsley
Dead people tell no tales—but their bones do, when he examines them
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35 Who Made a Difference: Steven Spielberg
A renowned director contemplates the lessons of history
Innovators of Our Time
We mark Smithsonian's 35th anniversary by revisiting scientists, artists and scholars who've enriched the magazine and our lives
Departments
A Night at the Opera
Weegee's wartime snapshot was widely seen as social criticism, but it was, in fact, a farce
After the Deluge
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a writer looks back at the repercussions of another great disaster, the Mississippi flood of 1927
Noxious Bogs & Amorous Elephants
Smithsonian's birth, 35 years ago, only hinted at the splendors to follow