CURRENT ISSUE
February 2006
Features
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A Return to the Reefs
With the world's coral reefs in crisis, the author's childhood memories guide a far-reaching study of the problem in the Bahamas
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Forgotten Forest
Photographic plates discovered in a dusty shed offer an astonishing look at life in the American woods more than a century ago
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Resurrecting Pompeii
A new exhibition brings the doomed residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum vividly to life
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In John They Trust
South Pacific villagers worship a mysterious American they call John Frum - believing he'll one day shower their remote island with riches
Mozart: In Search of the Roots of Genius
On the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, the author scours Salzburg and Vienna for traces of the master's mischievous spirit
Departments
A Soldier's Story
Photojournalist Chris Hondros, recently killed in Libya, discussed his work in war-torn Liberia with Smithsonian in 2006
Medical Sleuth
To prosecutors, it was child abuse - an Amish baby covered in bruises, but Dr. D. Holmes Morton had other ideas
A Lesson In Hate
How an Egyptian student came to study 1950s America and left determined to wage holy war
Every Book Its Reader
The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World, by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Bilingual By Breakfast
Only one thing stood between the author and the hojaldras of her desire