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March 2007

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Rain Forest Rebel

In the Amazon, researchers documenting the ways of native peoples join forces with a chief to stop illegal developers from destroying the wilderness

Gen. George H. Thomas

Catching Up With "Old Slow Trot"

Stubborn and deliberate, General George Henry Thomas was one of the Union's most brilliant strategists. So why was he cheated by history?

The Forgotten General

Historians' perspectives on George H. Thomas

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Reading Between the Lines

Scientists with high-tech tools are deciphering lost writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes

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Helsinki Warming

The city of Sibelius, known as a center for innovative technology and design, now stakes its claim as an urban hotspot

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Circling Squares

A 360-degree perspective on some of Europe's most alluring public spaces

Highlights & Hotspots

Some of this year's noteworthy European events

Departments

Indelible Images

Operatic Entrance

As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp

Phenomena & Curiosities

Curtains for the Pallid Sturgeon

Can biologists breed the "Dinosaurs of the Missouri" fast enough to stave off their extinction?

Presence of Mind

Next Stop, Squalor

Is poverty tourism "poorism," they call it exploration or exploitation?

From the Editor

Against the Grain

Rebels by any name

Letters

Letters

Readers Respond to the January Issue

Wild Things

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Gray seals, alligators and the world's largest flower

This Month in History

March Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

Around the Mall

Squirrelologist

Around the Mall

Dwarf Galaxies Caught Speeding

Milky Way Revised

From the Secretary

A Man in Full

A new biography depicts benefactor James Smithson as an exuberant, progressive man enamored of science

Q&A

Q & A: James Rosenquist

The Object at Hand

Comedy Central

The stand up comic's archive holds a lifetime of proven punch lines

What's Up

What's Up

Visual music, Macbeth and people wearing hats

The Last Page

Lads Without Plaids

Kiltless in Scotland: An Action Plan