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June 2003
Features
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Saving Iraq's Treasures
As archaeologists worldwide help recover looted artifacts, they worry for the safety of the great sites of early civilization
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Great Expectations
Elephant researchers believe they can boost captive-animal reproduction rates and reverse a potential population crash in zoos
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Reign On!
Four centuries after her death, Good Queen Bess still draws crowds. A regal rash of exhibitions and books examines her life anew
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Doo Wop by the Sea
Architects and preservationists have turned a strip of New Jersey shore into a monument to mid-century architecture. Can they keep the bulldozers at bay?
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Rethinking Neanderthals
Research suggests they fashioned tools, buried their dead, maybe cared for the sick and even conversed. But why, if they were so smart, did they disappear?
Land Shark
In his noir satires, novelist and eco-warrior Carl Hiaasen ravages those who dare to desecrate
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North to Alaska
In 1899, railroad magnate Edward Harriman invited preeminent scientists in America to join him on a working cruise to Alaska, then largely unexplored
Departments
Nothing but the Struth
A new exhibition showcases the German photographer's eye for art
True or False? Extinction Is Forever
Researchers' efforts to clone the vanished Tasmanian tiger highlight the quandary of reviving long-gone creatures
Grand Inquisitor
White House diva Helen Thomas has grilled every president since JFK
Capitol Discovery
Senate staffers come across a historic treasure in a dusty storage room
Beach Lady
MaVynee Betsch wants to memorialize a haven for African-Americans in the time of Jim Crow
Coalition of the Differing
It took Margaret Mead to understand the two nations separated by a common language