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June 2008

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Features

great white attacks a seal decoy

Forget Jaws, Now it's . . . Brains!

Mormon encampment

The Brink of War

industrial diamonds

Diamonds on Demand

Library dining room of the Sir John Soane Museum

Small Wonders

boy under a bridge

Gregory Crewdson's Epic Effects

John Montague

Montague the Magnificent

Departments

Indelible Images

Tabled Resolution

William Booth
Digs

Space Race II

Michael Milstein
Presence of Mind

On the Origin of a Theory

From the Editor

Crowd Pleasers

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Smithsonian Magazine
Wild Things

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Kenneth R. Fletcher, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski
Interview

Wallace Broecker Geochemist, Palisades, New York

Kenneth R. Fletcher
Points of Interest

Points of Interest

Melissa Gaskill, Michael Morain, Bob Wyss, Mariana Gosnell and Chris Granstrom
This Month in History

June Anniversaries

Smithsonian Magazine
From the Castle

From the Castle

Cristián Samper
Around the Mall

Squeeze Play

Kenneth R. Fletcher
Around the Mall

Jukebox

Kenneth R. Fletcher
The Object at Hand

Golden Grail

Q&A

Robert Bullard

Kenneth R. Fletcher
Around the Mall

Making History

Kenneth R. Fletcher
What's Up

What's Up

Kenneth R. Fletcher
The Last Page

Moses at the Bat

Hyman Baras