From the beginning, Smithsonian has looked beyond the Institution
Momentous or merely memorable
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A former civil rights activist revolutionizes the teaching of mathematics
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He took the blue-collar approach to the great monuments of Egypt
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The king of software takes on his biggest challenge yet
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First he wrote the code for the World Wide Web. Then he gave it away
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An ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation
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Dead people tell no tales—but their bones do, when he examines them
The primate who taught other primates how to survive in the wild
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After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?
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Come one, come all. Share the sky with the father of sidewalk astronomy
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Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning
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In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture
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His quest to peer into the essence of life no longer seems so strange
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The leader of the Hominid Gang asks what he can do for his continent
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Iroquois tradition plus Western science equals a more sustainable future
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A generation later, the first female astronaut is still on a mission
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He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive
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When feelings of kinship transcend the species boundary
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Vindicated for his controversial sociobiology? Yes. Satisfied? Not yet
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