Articles

Review of ‘Savages’

Review of ‘Savages’

April 1997

Bang! Went the Doors of Every Bank in America

Cashless, we carried on with nothing to fear but fear itself; by the time FDR opened them again, something called the New Deal was hard upon us

April 1997

If You’ve Always Been a Hacker, Why Would You Want to Be Like Mike?

April 1997

Golf Gets Back to Nature, Inviting Everyone to Play

Using natural landforms and native grasses and plants, golf course designers are creating links that are environmentally up to par

April 1, 1997

Everyone Knows the Dragon Is Only a Mythical Beast

But try telling that to the people who live on a few islands in Indonesia where several thousand real dragons subsist in the wild

April 1, 1997

Traveling Light’ Has New Meaning for Jet Laggards

From light therapy to melatonin, research into our bodies’ daily rhythms has led to promising treatments for weary travelers

April 1, 1997

Mapping the Margins

It’s a violent world at the edges of our continental shelves, which could serve as a geology textbook

April 1997

Smithsonian Perspectives

The Smithsonian’s gardens and greenery are things of beauty and delight as well as utility

April 1997

“The Storyteller is the Soybean…the Audience is the Sun”

They need each other to make something good happen, and when they get together at festivals and workshops across the land, it usually does

March 1, 1997

Review of ‘Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking’, ‘Auguste Escoffier: Memories of My Life’

March 1997

A Traveling Exhibition On Women Photographers Doesn’t Skirt the Issue

March 1997

Smithsonian Highlights

March 1997

The Grave at Vukovar

A war crimes tribunal sent forensic scientists to investigate mass graves in the former Yugoslavia. What happened there?

March 1, 1997

A Stout Ship’s Heartbreaking Ordeal by Ice

Heading north for the pole, the Jeannette was frozen fast for 21 months, then sank; for captain and crew, that was the easy part

March 1, 1997

A Family, a Colony, a Life of Good Works in the Holy City

Founded more than a century ago, the American Colony in Jerusalem has endured hardships, wars, upheaval, and the ebb and flow of empires

March 1, 1997

The Object at Hand

A bejeweled box from a sorely beset emperor leads to a Yankee dentist, and how he rescued the beautiful empress Eugénie from a Paris mob

March 1997

Unearthing Secrets Locked Deep Inside Each Fistful of Soil

To scientists at the National Soil Tilth Lab in Ames, Iowa, it’s not just dirt they are probing — it’s the planet’s sustaining surface

March 1, 1997

Not Your Average Backyard Gardener

Ganna Walska pursued life with a passion, from husbands to opera to plants. Her legacy is Lotusland, an exotic California garden

March 1, 1997

An Orphanage for Some Big Babies

Daphne Sheldrick has turned her Nairobi home into a nursery and rehabilitation center for infant elephants who have lost their families

March 1997

Around the Mall & Beyond

An all-day Saturday seminar on spices - one of the many programs on the Mall, around the world, even in cyberspace, offered by the Smithsonian Associates

March 1997