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January 2004

Features

Top Dogs

The Polar Inuit's bond with the sled dog remains intact, thanks to a ban on snowmobiles. But the lure of technology threatens these "magnificent animals"

John F. Ross

Reading Faces

Is that a scowl or just disgust? Facial expressions can be harder to interpret than most of us realize, but help is on the way

Richard Coniff

Coming to America

A Somali Bantu refugee family leaves 19th-century travails behind in Africa to take up life in 21st-century Phoenix

Gregory Jaynes

Britannia offers solace and a promise of compensation for her exiled American-born Loyalists

Divided Loyalties

Descended from American Colonists who fled north rather than join the revolution, Canada's Tories still raise their tankards to King George

David Devoss

Big!

Pop artist James Rosenquist returns to the limelight with a dazzling retrospective of his larger-than-life works

Bruce Watson

Vieques on the Verge

The Navy is gone; the bombing has stopped. What happens to Puerto Rico's Vieques now?

Shane Dubow

Shooting Stars

Photographer Jack Pashkovsky disarmed Hollywood's royalty with his ardor and persistence

Barry Avrich

Policing America's Ports

19,000 cargo containers flowing into the US each day pose a needle-in-the-haystack challenge to security officials worried about hidden terrorist weapons

Fen Montaigne

Riding the Steppes

A 1,000-mile odyssey across Mongolia on horseback

Smithsonian magazine

Departments

Indelible Images

Profile in Courage

Fifteen years later, a photograph of an anonymous protester facing down a row of tanks in Beijing's Tiananmen Square still inspires astonishment

Dana Calvo

Phenomena & Curiosities

Sleepless in Hawaii

Insomniac islanders are hopping mad over a tiny frog from that threatens their fragile ecosystem

Rita Beamish

Lewis and Clark

Looking For a Few Good Men

While the budding Corps of Discovery plans the expedition near St. Louis, William Clark grades the recruits