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A prodigy who played for President Kennedy at age 7, Ma (in 1988) is no snob, performing Bach to pop to tangos.

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

35 Who Made a Difference: Julie Taymor

Transcending genres, the designer and director creates shamanistic theater

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Innovators of Our Time

We mark Smithsonian’s 35th anniversary by revisiting scientists, artists and scholars who’ve enriched the magazine and our lives

The Arkansas River flooded Natural Steps, Arkansas in 1927

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

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Noxious Bogs & Amorous Elephants

Smithsonian’s birth, 35 years ago, only hinted at the splendors to follow

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One of a Kind

From the beginning, Smithsonian has looked beyond the Institution

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November Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable

35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Moses

A former civil rights activist revolutionizes the teaching of mathematics

35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Lehner

He took the blue-collar approach to the great monuments of Egypt

Bill Gates (in 2003) has "far surpassed anything I accomplished in engineering and business," says Jimmy Carter, now a fellow philanthropist.

35 Who Made a Difference: Bill Gates

The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet

Sam Ogden

35 Who Made a Difference: Tim Berners-Lee

First he wrote the code for the World Wide Web. Then he gave it away

35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin

An ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation

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: Janis Carter

The primate who taught other primates how to survive in the wild

35 Who Made a Difference: James Watson

After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?

35 Who Made a Difference: John Dobson

Come one, come all. Share the sky with the father of sidewalk astronomy

Dr. Henderson a week after he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush

35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson

Eradicating one of history’s deadliest diseases was just the beginning

35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson

In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture

35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Langridge

His quest to peer into the essence of life no longer seems so strange

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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