CURRENT ISSUE
January 2002
Features
Hero for Our Time
Challenged to prove his germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur shaped the terrain on which the battle against anthrax is being fought
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Marco Polo's Guide to Afghanistan
Two Americans retrace the steps of the 13th-century Italian merchant through a harsh land of tough, hospitable people
Just Folk
From samplers to sugar bowls, weathervanes to whistles, an engaging exhibition heralds the opening of the American Folk Art Museum's new home in Manhattan
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Tiger Tracks
Revisiting his old haunts in Nepal, the author looks for tigers and finds a clever new strategy for saving them
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Master of Middle Earth
When J.R.R. Tolkien finally completed his Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1949, the Oxford don scarcely imagined his fantasy epic would entrance readers
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Silk Robes and Cell Phones
Three decades after Frances FitzGerald won a Pulitzer Prize for Fire in the Lake, her classic work on Vietnam, she returned with photojournalist Mary Cross
Departments
Dragonfly Dramas
Desert Whitetails and Flame Skimmers cavort in the sinkholes of New Mexico's Bitter Lake Refuge
Prince of Tides
Before "ecology" became a buzzword, John Steinbeck preached that man is related to the whole thing