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April 2007

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Features

Sphinx in Alexandria harbor

Raising Alexandria

More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded the city, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains, from the likely site of Cleopatra's palace to pieces of an astonishing lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the World

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City of the Imagination

Andrew Lawler, author of "Raising Alexandria" talks about the hidden history of Egypt's fabled seaside capital

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Curse of the Devil's Dogs

Viewed as pests, Africa's wild dogs have nearly been wiped out. But thanks to new conservation efforts, the canines appear ready to make a comeback

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Digitizing the Hanging Court

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is an epic chronicle of crime and vice in early London. Now anyone can search all 52 million words

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The Zuni Way

Though they embrace computers and TV, the secret of the tribe's unity lies in fealty to their past

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The Nature of Glass

Prolific sculptor Dale Chihuly plants his vitreous visions in a Florida garden

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Barbaro's Legacy

The effort to save the fallen champion shows how far equine medicine has come in recent years. And how far it still has to go

Departments

Indelible Images

The Deciding Moment

A newly published scrapbook of Henri Cartier-Bresson's early photographs is changing some notions about how he worked

Digs

Lost City of Powhatan

The Algonquian settlement crucial to the survival of Jamestown 400 years ago has been found. Finally

Points of Interest

Open Sesame

Conspiracy buffs tour the lavish Washington, D.C. temple of the Freemasons, one of the world's most mysterious fraternities

Presence of Mind

Two Men and a Portrait

One wondered how an artist brings paint to life. The other showed him

Wild Things

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Ape tools, flying dinosaurs and emperor penguins

Interview

Roy Richard Grinker

His new book offers a scholar's— and father's— perspective on autism

This Month in History

April Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

From the Secretary

Hot Topics

An ice-diving course in Svalbard, Norway in only the tip of the Smithsonian science iceberg

What's Up

What's Up

Duke Ellington, animated movies and the old ballgame