CURRENT ISSUE
December 2004
Features
Herd on the Street
In Anchorage, Alaska, you never know when a moose will show up on your doorstep
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Free at Last
A new museum celebrates the Underground Railroad, the secret network of people who bravely led slaves to liberty before the Civil War
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America's Rare Bird
A new biography tells how the foreign-born frontiersman became one of the 19th century's greatest wildlife artists and a patron saint of the ecology movement
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Slices of Life
From Hollywood to Buchenwald, and Manhattan to the Kalahari, the magazine pioneered photojournalism as we know it. A new book shows how
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The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America
The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas
Vilnius Remembers
In Vilnius, Lithuania, preservationists are creating a living memorial to the nation's 225,000 Holocaust victims
Peter Pan Turns 100
But the boy who never grew up shows no signs of getting old
Departments
How 260 Tons of Thanksgiving Leftovers Gave Birth to an Industry
The birth of the TV dinner started with a mistake
Wicked Weed of the West
Spotted knapweed is driving out native plants and destroying rangeland, costing ranchers millions. Can anybody stop this outlaw?
Treasure Quest
For more than a decade, American Robert Graf has combed the waters of a Seychelles island for a multimillion-dollar booty stashed by pirates 300 years ago
Being There
Robotic spacecraft allow geologists to explore other planets as if they were on-site