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April 2002

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Goya and His Women

Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Canadian biologist Pierre DAmours surveys rivers

Lost at Sea

Rising Sun

The carcass of a cargo ship, already sheared of its forward structure, sits where it was parked on the beach at Chittagong, Bangladesh

Multiple Viewpoints

Joinery techniques in even the largest modern structures are similar to those used by Henry David Thoreau to build his simple cabin

Building to a Different Drummer

Lincoln's second inauguration speech

Absence of Malice

In a new book, Historian Ronald C. White, Jr., explains why Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, given just weeks before he died, was his greatest speech

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From the Editor

Mail Call

From the Secretary

Cartwheels at 50

Indelible Images

Shades of Merriment

Smithsonian magazine
Points of Interest

Sweet Taste of Spring

Chris Granstrom
The Object at Hand

It's a Wurlitzer

Mary K. Miller
Phenomena & Curiosities

Crystal Moonbeams

People File

A Model Son

Chesapeake Bay's maritime history comes alive in miniature wood carvings by a Maryland craftsman

Presence of Mind

Wittgenstein's Ghost

Taking Issue

Table Talk

The Last Page

Changing Spots