CURRENT ISSUE
August 1998
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Features
How the Bard Won the West
Mountain man Jim Bridger could recite Shakespeare with the best of them
One Under the Sun
With a newly refurbished logo, the Smithsonian reaffirms its unity of purpose
Sharing the Gift of Music
An endowment accompanying rare instruments lets them be heard in performances and on recordings
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A Wizard's Scribe
Before the phonograph and lightbulb, the electric pen helped spell the future for Thomas Edison
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Review of 'Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria and No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo and Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa'
Drama in Lake Victoria and No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo and Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa