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June 2005
Features
Hazy Days In Our Parks
The air in many national wilderness wonderlands is getting worse. As officials debate new rules to curb pollution, scientists find sources are far-flung
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Boar War
A marauding hog bites the dust in a border dispute between the United States and Britain that fails to turn ugly
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Animal Magnetism
Gregory Colbert's haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the US, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures
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Killers In Paradise
The tropics are home to the world's most venomous creatures-jellyfish with 4 brains, 24 eyes and stingers that can kill you in a minute flat
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Cross Purposes
Mexican immigrants are defying expectations in this country-and changing the landscape back home
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King Tut: The Pharaoh Returns!
An exhibition featuring the first CT scans of the boy king's mummy tells us more about Tutankhamun than ever before
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The Year Of Albert Einstein
His discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math
Departments
Chief Lobbyist
He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers
Rhyme or Cut Bait
When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away
Your Branch or Mine?
Fireflies' come-hither signals are being decoded by penlight-wielding biologists who've found treachery, also, in the summer-night flashes
Glyph Dweller
Archaeologist Alanah Woody's infectious enthusiasm for Nevada's rock art knows no bounds
Reversing the Clock
Taking care of the nation's treasures requires art, history and even molecular science
A Fork in the River
After deliberating for nine days, the captains choose the tortuous southwest branch of the Missouri toward the Great Falls
A Bear-Handed Grab
How a stranded cub became the living symbol for one of America's best-known advertising campaigns
Lucky Man
A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace