CURRENT ISSUE
April 2003
Features
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To Fly!
A new book traces the Wright brothers' triumph 100 years ago to an innovative design and meticulous attention to detail
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Fabricating Art
Laura Breitman fashions photo-realist collages out of whole cloth
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Bear Trouble
Only hundreds of miles from the North Pole, industrial chemicals threaten the Arctic's greatest predator
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Mr. Lincoln's Washington
The house where the conspirators hatched their heinous plot now serves sushi, and the yard where they were hanged is a tennis court
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Degas and His Dancers
A major exhibition and a new ballet bring the renowned artist's obsession with dance center stage
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Growing Up Maya Angelou
The famed writer discusses her childhood, her writing and the importance of family
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Westward Ho!
When Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, he altered the shape of a nation and the course of history
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The Curse of Count Dracula
The prospect of a tourist bonanza from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania excites some Romanians, but opponents see only red
Departments
Bringing Up Baby
Scientists zero in on the caring and cunning ways of a seldom-seen waterbird
Manhattan Bound
A new book of photographs by octogenarian Helen Levitt charts her amused view of an ever-evolving New York
Hewed From History
In Charleston, South Carolina, shipwrights re-create a 19th-century schooner
The Stuff of Genes
Fifty years after the discovery of DNA's structure, the payoff hasn't matched the hype. But really, we've only just begun
Particulars of Context
There's art in the history at the Archives of American Art
Journal of the Plague Years
Two courageous pioneers showed how a fearsome scourge could be defeated