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January 2005
Features
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Stop the Carnage
A pistol-packing American scientist puts his life on the line to reduce "the most serious threat to African wildlife"
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Rethinking Jamestown
America's first permanent colonists have been considered incompetent. But new evidence suggests that it was a drought—not indolence—that almost did them in
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Return of a Virtuoso
Following a debilitating stroke, the incomparable jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had to start over
James Boswell's Scotland
The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth
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Cabin Fever in Russia
As Muscovites get rich on oil, dachas, the rustic country houses that nourish the Russian soul, get gaudy
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Washington Takes Charge
Confronting the British in Boston in 1775, Gen. George Washington honed the qualities that would carry the day in war and sustain the new nation in peace
Departments
Coming Home
To a war-weary nation, a U.S. POW's return from captivity in Vietnam in 1973 looked like the happiest of reunions
Ahead of Its Time?
Founded by a freed slave, an Illinois town was a rare example of biracial cooperation before the Civil War
Freeze Frame
Beginning in the 1880s, amateur photographer Wilson A. Bentley considered the endlessly varied crystals "miracles of beauty"
Tiny Treasures
From mosquitoes to mementos, the smallest items in the Smithsonian's collections can be the most useful
Dangerous Liaisons
Severe cold and fraternizing with the Mandan keep Meriwether Lewis' doctoring in demand