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June 2005

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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

Mexicans entering the United States

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

Indelible Images

Chief Lobbyist

He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers

Points of Interest

Rhyme or Cut Bait

When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away

Uncategorized

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

People File

Glyph Dweller

Archaeologist Alanah Woody's infectious enthusiasm for Nevada's rock art knows no bounds

Editor's Note

Seeing a Ghost

A woodpecker feared extinct reappears in Arkansas

From the Secretary

Reversing the Clock

Taking care of the nation's treasures requires art, history and even molecular science

Lewis and Clark

A Fork in the River

After deliberating for nine days, the captains choose the tortuous southwest branch of the Missouri toward the Great Falls

Around the Mall

A Bear-Handed Grab

How a stranded cub became the living symbol for one of America's best-known advertising campaigns

Around the Mall

Getting Kids to Eat Their Veggies

A Q&A with Alice Waters

The Last Page

Lucky Man

A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace