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Serious Firepower

I’m Not An Artist And I Don’t Play One on TV

Bright Moon, Warm Earth?

GRAND PRIZE WINNER A tribal birth in India Purulia, India • Photographed August 2007 Six days after Betka Tudu's birth, female relatives and neighbors in the West Bengal village of Purulia gathered to bless him and "to protect him from harm's way," says Dey. Born into the Santhal tribe, Betka "unknowingly drew his distant kin closer than ever." — Abigail Tucker

5th Annual Photo Contest Winners and Finalists

See the winning photos from our 2007 contest

Where thousands of soldiers ferried supplies toward the front, a new road swings through Quang Tri Province

Revolutionary Road

Efforts to turn Ho Chi Minh Trail into a major highway have uncovered battle scars from the past

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Rebel with a Cause

With their reputed healing powers, Japan's onsen, or volcanic hot springs, have attracted the weary since the days of the samurai

Springs Eternal

In rural Japan, stressed workers and tourists seek geothermal ease

Tradition and change coalesce (young monks at a religious festival sport trendy shades, masks and a swastika—for Buddhists, a symbol of good fortune) in the remote, majestic country its citizens call Druk Yul or "Land of the Thunder Dragon."

The Changing Face of Bhutan

As the last Himalayan Buddhist kingdom cautiously opens itself to the world, traditionalists fear for its unique culture

Doors to the Hall of Middle Harmony have nine rows of nine knobs because the number nine is prized in Chinese numerology

Forbidden No More

As Beijing gets ready to host its first Olympics, a veteran journalist returns to its once-restricted palace complex

Bangkok's Songkran New Year festival washes away bad luck

Highlights and Hotspots

Celebrations, ceremonies and competitions sure to delight even the most seasoned traveler

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Game Cats

Kanini and Quincy

Reaching 60 feet long and weighing up to 20 tonnes, the whale shark is the world's largest fish

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

An Australian conservation group uses Hubble space telescope software to identify animals by their markings

Two Bighorn rams

Tracking the Bighorns

Where do the elusive mountain climbers go? Researchers have finally learned some answers

American Laurie Marker (with Chewbaaka, a cat she raised after it was caught in a trap as a 3-week-old) is the world's expert on cheetahs.

Rare Breed

Can Laurie Marker help the world’s fastest mammal outrun its fate?

National Zoo researchers (with Ume) are experimenting with cheetah fertility.

Breeding Cheetahs

A typical 19th-century phrenology chart

Electrocybertronics

Marketing through pseudoscience

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Q&A With the Rhino Man

Wildlife biologist Hemanta Mishra’s efforts to save the endangered Indian rhinoceros

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Saving the Cheetah

National Zoo scientist Adrienne Crosier discusses how scientists are using artificialinsemination to rescue the species

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Letters

Readers Respond to the January Issue

"Renegades" says a former Indiana motorcycle-shop owner of bikers he knew, such as Sparky (Charles Ritter, left) and CowBoy (irvin Dunsdon), in 1965

Two for the Rogues

Sparky and CowBoy were fast friends, but Danny Lyon was able to keep up with them

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