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April 1999

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Freer and Sackler

A Museum Partnership

Working together, the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries are gaining distinction in Asian art

We're Scraping Bottom

As vessels around the world drag nets and dredges across the seabed, they slowly destroy the biome

Moving Down the Line

It's pulled and jimmied, tied and lifted —but the 20-ton Jupiter engine finally reaches its new home

Tasty Brazil Nuts Stun Harvesters and Scientists

A Smithsonian biologist tracks the protein-rich nuts to understand their role in the Amazonian forest

Review of 'Fall of the Phantom Lord'

Review of 'North Alaska Chronicle'

Madame de Meuron, a Swiss eccentric, with her characteristic ear trumpet and hat

Crazy? No, Just One Card Shy of a Full Deck

I had become what every New Yorker secretly longs to be, a harmless, amusing eccentric

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