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September 2008
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Features
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Victory at Sea
The world's largest protected area, established this year in the remote Pacific, points the way to restoring marine ecosystems
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Our Imperiled Oceans: Seeing Is Believing
Photographs and other historical records testify to the former abundance of the sea
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Face the Nation
Abraham Lincoln's debates with Stephen A. Douglas for the U.S. Senate in 1858 turned the backwoods rail-splitter into presidential timber
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Lost & Found
Ancient gold artifacts from Afghanistan, hidden for more than a decade, dazzle in a new exhibition
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Four for a Quarter
Photographer Nakki Goranin shows how the once ubiquitous photobooth captured the many faces of 20th-century America
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Macau Hits the Jackpot
In just four years, this 11-square-mile outpost on the coast of China eclipsed Las Vegas as gambling's world capital
Departments
Day of the Iguanas
On a morning in a Oaxacan market, photographer Graciela Iturbide made one of the most enduring images of Zapotec life
Northwest Passage
He arrived unsure of what to expect—but the prolific author quickly embraced Seattle's energizing diversity
Washington's Boyhood Home
Archaeologists have finally pinpointed the Virginia house where our first president came of age
Clan-Do Spirit
A genealogical surprise led the author to ask: What does it take to be one of the family?
Spirit of the Sea
Tlingit artisans craft a canoe that embodies their culture's oceangoing past
Nancy Knowlton
The renowned coral reef biologist leads Smithsonian's effort to foster a greater public understanding of the world's oceans
Most Likely To
A quick guide to the standouts of the National Museum of Natural History's "Ocean Hall Class of 2008"
The Bugs Who Flew Too Much
This invasion would have driven even Alfred Hitchcock psycho