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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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From the Castle

Tapestries

Rogone (in a San Bernadino hospital) says "my babies' motivated the inventions.

A Neonatal Niche

Medical companies ignored the needs of premature infants, inspiring a nurse to become an entrepreneur

Cover of the "Singing for Life" album.

Jukebox

Songs to Live By

Evel Knievel

Daredevil

Evel Knievel took risky behavior (and showboating) to new heights

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John Alexander

A retrospective of artist John Alexander’s work debuted at the American Art Museum in December and travels next to Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts

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Making History

Mystery Illuminated

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What’s Up

Jones (sporting Frank Sinatra's ring) has a hand in the Beijing Olympics as well as ongoing music and movies

The Arranger

From bebop to hip-hop, nobody alive has done more for American music than Quincy Jones

In 1907, recordings were interred in metal urns at the Palais Garnier, to be reopened in 100 years

A Record Find

How The Phantom of the Opera led me to a long-lost musical treasure in Paris

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