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April 2005

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Features

Outdoor proceedings

Evolution on Trial

Eighty years after a Dayton, Tennessee, jury found John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, the citizens of "Monkeytown" still say Darwin's for the birds

On the lookout for enemies

Out of Time

The volatile Korubo of the Amazon still live in almost total isolation. Indian tracker Sydney Possuelo is trying to keep their world intact

Salvador Dali in Paris

The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí

Genius or madman? A new exhibition may help you decide

Doses of oral polio vaccine are added to sugar cubes for use in a 1967 vaccination campaign

Conquering Polio

Fifty years ago, a scientific panel declared Jonas Salk's polio vaccine a smashing success. A new book takes readers behind the headlines

The new Indian memorial

Little Bighorn Reborn

With a new Indian memorial, the site of Custer's last stand draws descendants of victors and vanquished alike

One Writer's Garden

In Jackson, Mississippi, preservationists are restoring the verdant retreat that sustained novelist Eudora Welty

fishing shack

A Road Less Traveled

Cape Cod's two-lane Route 6A offers a direct conduit to a New England of yesteryear

Healing Arts

At Ojo Caliente, site of New Mexico's ancient hot springs, an artisan revives the craft of Native American pottery

Shore Bird

Architect Santiago Calatrava created an urban landmark in the guise of an addition for the Milwaukee Art Museum

Paciofic Crest Trail

Footpath Atop the West

Since the 1930s, the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, extending from Mexico to Canada, has beckoned young and old

Rapture of the Deep

Pennekamp State Park—the nation's first coral-reef santcuary—protects a thriving ecosystem beneath the waves

Departments

Indelible Images

The Old Ballgames

Civil rights chronicler Ernest Withers also photographed the glories of black baseball, including pioneering big leaguer Jackie Robinson

Digs

Swords and Sandals

In Libya, again open to U.S. travelers after more than two decades, archaeologists have uncovered spectacular mosaics of the glories of Rome

The Object at Hand

Hearing Aid

A trove of recorded sounds preserves everything from tree frog calls to murmurs of the heart

Presence of Mind

Just What the Doctor Ordered

During Prohibition, an odd alliance of special interests argued beer was vital medicine

Editor's Note

Emerging From Caves

Science suffers a setback—and leads to a breakthrough

From the Secretary

Invention at Play

The Lemelson Center celebrates a decade of nurturing the inventor in each of us

Lewis and Clark

A Formidable Anamal

After a winter of waiting, the corps leaves Fort Mandan and heads warily into bear country

Lewis and Clark

William Clark and the Shaping of the West

The Last Page

Hugs and Kisses from the IRS

A kinder, gentler tax form is on the way