CURRENT ISSUE
November 2003
Features
Tumult and Transition in "Little America"
A quarter century of civil war over festering ethnic animosities has renewed questions about the U.S. role in the African nation
Seeing Sylvia Plath
A new movie rekindles curiosity about the poet's life, love and suicide at age 30
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Celestial Sightseeing
From Triton's active geysers to the Sun's seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before
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Dream Weavers
In the Mexican village of Teotitlán, gifted artisans create a future from bright hand-loomed rugs
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Saving Atchafalaya
A more than 70-year effort to "control" America's largest river basin swamp is threatening the Cajun culture that thrives on it
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Meet Phillip Glass
From opera halls to neighborhood movie theaters, Philip Glass attracts an enormous audience many of whom have never listened to classical music
Departments
Magic Moments
A new book and a Paris arts center pay homage to photography's elusive 95-year-old grand master
Ouch!
A new finding that fish feel pain has set off a tortured debate about the ethics of angling
Antique Road Show
Before the Interstates passed the highway by, America got its kicks on Route 66
Tribal Talk
Immersion schools try to revive and preserve Native American languages
Crash Junkie
Flight instructor Craig Fuller scales mountains, combs deserts and trudges through wilderness to track down old airplane wrecks
The Pledge's Creator
What would the minister who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance make of the legal challenge to it?
New Hall on the Mall
A dazzling exhibition space celebrates mammalian diversity through re-creations of habitats on four continents