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December 2001

Features

For smithsonian's writers, the curiouser the better

Making the Smithsonian an even more splendid presence on the American landscape than ever before

Angela M. Pleasants

Scientists are trying to fathom why Hawaii's fish population is declining

Bernice Weuthrich

Smithsonian magazine

Any other year, giving reactionary author V. S. Naipaul a Nobel Prize would have sparked debate

Paul Gray

Eliot Marshall

George Kalogerakis