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March 2007
Features
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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
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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
Operatic Entrance
As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp
Curtains for the Pallid Sturgeon
Can biologists breed the "Dinosaurs of the Missouri" fast enough to stave off their extinction?
Next Stop, Squalor
Is poverty tourism "poorism," they call it exploration or exploitation?
A Man in Full
A new biography depicts benefactor James Smithson as an exuberant, progressive man enamored of science
Comedy Central
The stand up comic's archive holds a lifetime of proven punch lines