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NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 1997 - 1999
January
1997
 | The
Imperiled Nile Delta
(As the
Mediterranean Sea
encroaches and the Egyptian population grows, what’s to become of the
fertile lands at the mouth of the ancient river?)
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 | Peruvian
Mummies Revisited
(Sharp eyes of science probe the Mummies of
Peru
) (An Inca maiden, sacrificed on an Andean peak five centuries ago,
reveals more secrets.)
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 | Tree
Giants of North America: Climbing an Ecological Frontier (Suspended hundreds of feet above the ground,
scientists investigate the temperate rain forest canopies of the
Pacific Northwest
.)
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 | Joseph
Rock (1922-1935): Our Man in
China
(Explorer
and journalist Joseph Rock brought
China
to life for Geographic readers in the 1920s and ‘30s.)
|
 | Beneath
the Tasman Sea (The
plankton-rich waters off
Australia
’s island state host rare and splendid creatures.)
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 | Field
Notes (The
Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration helped fund 200 field
projects last year.)
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 | Sri Lanka
(A nation of azure
skies and emerald forests in the
Indian Ocean
is turning crimson from bloody civil conflict.
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February
1997
 | Sons
of Genghis Khan: The Great Khans
(Heirs of the great Mongol warrior set out to conquer the world and
nearly succeeded, forging the largest land empire in history.)
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 | An
Arctic Breakthrough
(Scientists are evaluating secret polar data, newly released by the
U.S.
and
Russia
in a farsighted act of bilateral cooperation.)
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 | Lichens:
More Than Meets the Eye
(Among the world’s oldest organisms, lichens provide food, medicine,
rainbow-hued dyes, and even monitor air quality.)
|
 | The
Dawn of Humans: The First Steps
(A wealth of fossil finds in
Africa
draws us closer to answers about when, where, and why our earliest ancestors
first stood upright. Double Map Supplement: The Dawn of Humans)
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 | Siberian
Tigers (Russian
and American researchers join forces to try to save the world’s biggest
cat.)
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 | Under
New York
(An
incredible maze of water mains, transit tunnels, sewer pipes, and power
cables girds the core of the Big Apple.)
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March
1997
 | Boom
Times on the Gold Coast of China
(Cities on the Pearl River Delta are booming, thanks to free enterprise
and the pending reunion with Hong Kong and Macau.)
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 | Hong
Kong: Countdown to
China
(Time’s
up! On July 1
Great Britain
relinquishes its Asian colony to
China
.)
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 | Moths
Come to Light (Some
140,000 species of moths display an astonishing variety of disguises and
survival techniques.)
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 | Our
National Forests: Into the line of fire (Federal woodlands have become recreation destinations – and
battlefields over multiple use.)
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 | The
Magic of Paper (One
of civilization’s most precious innovations has recorded and helped shape
the way we live.)
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 | Kaliningrad
: Coping with a
German past and a Russian future (Wrested from
Germany
in
World War II
,
Russia
’s ice-free Baltic port tries capitalism.)
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 | Bearded
Seals: Going With The Floe
(The first detailed study of these Pinnipeds in their
Arctic
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April
1997
 | Time
Exposures: The Hubble Telescope Views The Universe From Space
(Astronomy’s unmatched eye records the fringes of the universe from
earth orbit.)
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 | Traveling
Australia
’s Dog Fence (Stretching
across the outback, the 3,300-mile barrier protects sheep from dingoes –
but poses ecological dilemmas.)
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 | Borneo
’s Strangler Fig
Trees (These
tropical giants often kill their hosts, but their fruit sustains myriad
island animals.)
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 | The
Yellowstone: The
Last
Best
River
(Tumbling
out of
Yellowstone
National Park
, one of the West’s last undimmed rivers carves a fantastic landscape on
its way to meet the
Missouri
.)
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Moscow
: The New Revolution
(Free enterprise is changing the complexion of Russian’s cosmopolitan
capital.)
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 | Oil
on Ice: Economic boon, environmental disruption –
Alaska
weighs the problem (After 20 years
Alaska
’s
North Slope
gusher is slowing down, and the industry has its eye on the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge.)
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May
1997
 | India
: Fifty Years of
Independence
(Home to nearly a billion people, Asia’s
giant democracy struggles to fulfill the dream born with its freedom from
Britain
50 years ago.)
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Iceland
’s Trial by Fire
(A volcanic eruption ripped open the island-nation’s largest glacier,
unleashing the worst flood in 60 years.)
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 | La
Salle’s Last Voyage
(In 1686 the Belle ran aground off
Texas
, ending a French explorer’s quest to reach the
Mississippi
by sea. Now the wreck surrenders its secrets.)
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 | The
Dawn of Humans: Expanding Worlds
(Fleet-footed and skilled at tool-making, Homo erectus was probably the
first member of our human family to venture out of
Africa
.)
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 | Hunting
the Mighty Python
(Gbaya men in central
Cameroon
stalk the huge snakes for meat and skin by crawling into their burrows and
hauling them out bare-handed.)
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 | A
Wild Ride: Biking across the
Alaska Range
(After 775
bone-rattling miles of glaciers and gravel bars, a trio looks back at an
awesome mountain-biking adventure.)
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June
1997
 | French
Polynesia: Charting a New Course (
France
’s restless South Pacific paradise grapples with modernization as it
fights for its identity.)
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 | Black
Pearls of French Polynesia
(Crystalline lagoons of the Tuamotu Archipelago provide a home for unique
South Seas
Trove.)
|
 | Restoring
Old Ironsides (In
July the U.S.S. Constitution is scheduled to set sail from
Boston
for the first time in 116 years.)
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 | Cats:
Nature’s Masterwork
(From tiger to tabby, these marvels of design are all the same under the
skin.)
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 | The
Human-Cat Connection: The Family Line (Researchers mapping feline DNA find intriguing genetic
similarities to humans.)
|
 | Okinawa:
Claiming its birthright (
Japan
’s southern outpost has hosted the
U.S.
military for five decades. Some argue that’s long enough.)
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 | Special
Places: Hemingway’s Many Hearted Fox River (Hemingway’s storied trout stream wends its way
through the woods and bogs of northern
Michigan
.)
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 | In
Focus:
Central Africa
’s Cycle of Violence
(Forty years of violence between Hutu and Tutsi has scarred the core of a
continent.)
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July
1997
 | Roman Empire
(Ruthless in
conquest but tolerant in victory, the ancient Romans forged a vast empire
that lasted more than a thousand years. In the first of two articles we
trace its rise and fall.)
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 | Sumo
(Cloaked in ritual, explosive bouts between titanic wrestlers reveal much
about Japanese history and culture.)
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 | Montserrat:
Under the Volcano
(For two years residents of this tiny
Caribbean
island have lived with a smoldering, belching menace.)
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 | Robot
Revolution (Smaller
and smarter than ever, robotic machines have moved beyond the factory floor
to transform human work, entertainment, and exploration.)
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 | The
Dawn of Humans: The First Europeans
(Pushing
Europe
’s prehistory back to a million years ago, scientists are finding
startlingly early human remains. Our ancestors? Or their mysterious
precursors?)
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 | The
Grand
Managed
Canyon
(
Glen
Canyon
Dam has long harnessed the mighty
Colorado
, but environmentalists, biologists, and river runners still contest the
benefits.)
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August
1997
 | Islands
at the Edge (Shifting
slivers of sand, the barrier islands that protect the
Atlantic
and Gulf coasts lure beach lovers into a losing battle with nature.)
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 | A
New Light in the Sea
(
Red Sea
corals explode with fluorescent colors under the glow of ultraviolet
light.)
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 | The
Frozen Face of Thalay Sagar
(No one has reached the summit of this 22,650-foot Himalayan peak by its
north face. Two American climbers find out why.)
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 | Roman
Legacy (Fifteen
centuries after the fall of Rome the empire’s influence still pervades our
culture in law, language, architecture, and government.)
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A Special Place
:
Oregon
’s Outback (In
the state’s rugged southeast corner the wind is a constant companion, and
water is as rare as a neighbor.)
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Malaysia
: Rising Star
(After 40 years of independence this Southeast Asian nation has achieved
peace and plenty, at a cost.)
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 | Malaysia
’s Secret Realm
(Mists wreathe Sabah on the northern tip of
Borneo
, where virgin rain forest shelters fragile treasures.)
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September
1997
 | China
’s Three Gorges:
Before the Flood
(The world’s mightiest dam is rising on the
Yangtze River
. Gains: electric power and flood control. Losses: wild canyons and hundreds
of thousands of homes.)
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 | Route
66: Romancing the Road
(Rattling through
Arizona
, this remnant of a historic highway returns travelers to two-lane
America
and the auto’s golden age.)
|
 | Racing
with the Wind (Competitors
from three nations last winter attempted the first nonstop girdling of the
globe by balloon.)
|
 | A
Dream Called
Nunavut
(In 1999
Canada
’s Inuit will land their greatest catch – 770,000 square miles to call
their own. Double Map Supplement: Canadian North.)
|
 | The
Dawn of Humans: Tracking the First of Our Kind (Around 117,000 years ago in southern
Africa
an early member of our species left footprints in a sand dune. Could it have
been the “Eve” some scientists are seeking?)
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 | Beirut
Rising
(A war-torn ruin after 15 years of civil strife,
Lebanon
’s capital is rebuilding itself physically and socially.)
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 | The
Siren Song of Everest
(Amateurs crowd the perilous slopes of earth’s highest mountain,
seeking the adventure of a lifetime.)
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October
1997
 | Down
the Zambezi (Life
flows at the pace of a dugout canoe along this great river in the heart of
Africa, blessed with fertile land, abundant wildlife, and the glory of
Victoria Falls.)
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 | Americana
: County Fairs
(
America
’s come-one, come-all celebrations have long knit communities out of
scattered farm families. Now they do the same for city folk and
suburbanites.)
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 | The
Promise of
Pakistan
(Fifty years
after independence the Asian nation founded as a Muslim homeland works to
bolster its economy and confront it social ills.)
|
 | Parasites:
Looking for a Free Lunch
(Most of earth’s creatures are freeloaders, and those that aren’t are
playing host. From the protozoans that cause malaria to the mites living on
your skin, parasites range from deadly to benign.)
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 | The
Most Ancient Americans
(Shattering assumptions, a well-preserved site at Monte Verde, Chile,
yields proof that humans arrived in the Western Hemisphere more than 12,000
years ago.)
|
 | Vincent
Van Gogh: Lullaby in Color
(During the ten years before his death, the artist unleashed a passion
for color that defines his paintings and marks him as a genius of
unsurpassed vision.)
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November
1997
 | Aging:
New Answers to Old Questions
(In the face of an exploding elderly population, scientists study how and
why humans age, and seek the secrets of longer, healthier lives.)
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 | Wilderness
Rafting Siberian Style
(A fearless Siberian team takes handmade equipment to the edge on the
raging
Oygaing
River
in
Uzbekistan
.)
|
 | Quebec
’s Quandary
(After a troubled 130-year marriage to English-speaking
Canada
, the French-speaking province is weighing the pros and cons of calling it
quits.)
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 | Flies
that Fight (Flies
with spreading antlers that battle like miniature elk for mates? Take a
ringside seat for the rain forest brawl.)
|
 | Portrait
of a Hutsul Village
(In the seclusion of Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains, the Hutsul people
are regaining ancestral lands and reviving cherished traditions suppressed
by the former Soviet Union.)
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A Special Place
: North Woods Journal
(Deep in the
Minnesota
wilderness, where pine trees claw the surface of dark lakes, a native son
records his habitat in a personal journey of discovery.)
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 | Mustang:
Nepal
’s Forgotten Corner
(Long isolated by topography and regional politics, the picturesque realm
of Mustang is now open to the outside world.)
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December
1997
 | Making
Room for Wild Tigers
(Perilous but not hopeless, the future of the world’s few thousand wild
tigers hinges on providing them land, prey, and protection.)
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 | Sita:
Life of a Wild Tigress
(No female wild tiger has produced more documented litters than Sita, who
has boosted the tiger population in the Indian national park she calls home.)
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Australia
by Bike: A Bloody
Long Way Home (Wandering
down under on two wheels brings an American journalist face-to-face with his
adopted country.)
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 | The
Royal Crypts of Copan
(Hidden for more than 1,500 years beneath the ruins of an ancient city in
Honduras, the death house of an illustrious Maya ruler dazzles
archaeologists with is regal cache.)
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 | The
Age of Comets (Cosmic
visitors, with tails stretching across the heavens, bear remnants of the
early solar system.)
|
 | Scaling
the Dragon’s Spires of
Vietnam
’s Ha
Long
Bay
(Drawn by
natural arches and sheer cliffs, sport climbers tackle the Ha
Long
Bay
islands of
Vietnam
.)
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 | Uncovering
Patagonia’s Lost World
(Digging up one surprising fossil after another, paleontologists are
rethinking the evolution of dinosaurs in
South America
.)
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January
1998
 | Making
Sense of the Millennium
(As the year 2000 approaches and global mania builds, we step back to
consider six areas critical to future generations in this introduction to a
two-year series.)
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Blackpool
,
England
(Braving chill
waters and rambunctious crowds, Britons for decades have enjoyed the gaudy
pleasures of this improbably seaside resort.)
|
 | Polar
Bears: Stalkers of the High Arctic (Scientists follow the sea bear into the Arctic vastness,
puzzling out how it hunts, breeds, and keeps from freezing to death.)
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A Special Place
: The
Easy Ways
of the
Altamaha
(Gnarled
cypresses dot the marshes where herons stalk and gators laze and Georgians
savor the tranquility of their timeless river.)
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 | Labors
of Love (The
National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration
included Maya villagers among more than 200 grantees funded in 1997.)
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 | The
Netherlands
: Ode to Ice (When
a hard freeze transforms the Dutch landscape, canals sing with the music of
skates.)
|
 | Amelia
Earhart (The
world’s most famous aviatrix vanished over the Pacific in 1937. Amelia
Earhart’s untimely death helped assure that her pioneering achievements in
the cockpit would not be forgotten.)
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February
1998
 | Exploration:
Where Do We Go Next?
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 | Revolutions
in Mapping (Computers
and satellites allow today’s mapmakers to chart the heavens, guide a
missile, or help a farmer increase crop yield, with data that can be updated
instantly.)
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 | The
Millennium Series: Why Explore?
(Pathfinders discuss what it means to be an explorer of earth, sea, and
space at the dawn of the 21st century.)
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 | Queen
Maud Land: On the Edge of Antarctica (On the edge of
Antarctica
a six-man team climbs mountains never before scaled.)
|
 | Jacques-Yves
Cousteau: Master of the Deep (1910-1997), by Luis Marden (Co-inventor of the Aqua-Long, the
captain of the Calypso pioneered a new era of underwater exploration and
awareness of the threat of pollution to the world’s oceans.)
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 | Brides
of the Sahara (Festive
trappings pattern the days of a Tuareg marriage ceremony in
Niger
.)
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 | Remember
the
Maine
? (Soon after
the U.S.S. Maine exploded and sank in
Havana
harbor in 1898, questions arose: accident or mine? Despite new information
the mystery of the blast remains.)
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 | Over
the Top: Australia by Bike, Part Two (To reach Perth from Darwin, head southwest into the burning
wind and pedal, mate – for 3,000 miles.)
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Supplement: Exploration
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March
1998
 | Blue
Refuges:
U.S.
National Marine Sanctuaries
(Charged with protecting
U.S.
ocean treasures, 12 national marine sanctuaries encompass 18,000 square
miles of coral reefs, elephant seal rookeries, kelp forests, and whale
feeding grounds.)
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Unabashed (A
city schooled in passion, chaos, and the art of making do, the Italian
metropolis embraces its virtues and grapples with its problems, without
apology.)
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 | The
Rise of Life on Earth
(Microscopic life-forms, our planet’s pioneer inhabitants, bequeathed
the oxygen we breathe, the DNA and proteins that drive our cells, and the
photosynthesis that feeds us.)
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America
’s
First Highway
(The
National Road, part of today’s U.S. Route 40, was built between 1811 and
1838 to connect the port of Baltimore to the Mississippi.)
|
 | Planet
of the Beetles (From
humble ladybugs to brilliant scarabs, beetles both help and bedevil us. A
third of the world’s identified insects are beetles, and they are
everywhere.)
|
 | Nenets:
Surviving on the Siberian Tundra (Having endured the communist collectivization of their reindeer
herds, these nomads now face capitalist development of the huge gas fields
underlying their pasturelands.)
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April
1998
 | The
Orinoco: Into the Heart of Venezuela
(The bewitching song of El Dorado – fabled fountainhead of gold –
still echoes along Venezuela’s longest river as it flows past rain forest
villages, cattle ranches, and natural caches of mineral wealth.)
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 | High-Tech
Search For Roman Shipwrecks (Probing the depths of the Mediterranean Sea, a nuclear
submarine locates the remains of trading vessels that sank west of Sicily
2,000 years ago.)
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Australia
by Bike, Part Three:
Closing the Circle (Surviving a self-imposed ordeal of 10,000 wind-blasted miles,
an American journalist completes a circuit of this adopted country and finds
himself in a different place.)
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 | Testing
the Waters of Rongelap
(This Pacific atoll, heavily contaminated by radioactivity during a 1954
nuclear bomb test, remains off-limits for human habitation, yet in its
waters life abounds.)
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 | Ozarks
Harmony (Rich
in natural beauty and native pride, the hills that straddle Arkansas and
Missouri now host an influx of newcomers whose ways sometimes strain a
staunchly independent culture.)
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 | The
Rise of Life on Earth: Life Grows Up
(Bizarre organisms filled the seas more than half a billion years ago,
foreshadowing the rise of more complex creatures. Their fossils are
rewriting the history of life on Earth.)
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 | The
Vanishing Prairie Dog
(Shoot them or save them? Opinions on prairie dogs divide the American
West. What’s clear is that these rodents are disappearing, along with
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May 1998
 | Millennium
Series 2: Physical World: How Will the Planet Change?
(In our continuing coverage of the issues facing us as the millennium
nears, we examine an Earth in constant motion. Millennium Supplement:
Physical World.)
|
 | The
Millennium Series: Cascadia: Living on Fire (An earthquake and tsunami of cataclysmic scale
struck the
Pacific Northwest
in A.D. 1700. The subterranean forces at work that day will rage again,
unsettling news for a burgeoning region.)
|
 | The
Millennium Series: Unlocking the Climate Puzzle (Earth warms and cools in natural cycles over the
eons, scientists say, but we may be altering the rhythm with our dependence
of fossil fuels.)
|
 | Return
of the Gray Wolf
(Three years into a controversial project to reestablish the predator in
the lower 48 states, Canis lupus is well on its way to recovery. Not
everyone is cheering.)
|
 | Prince
Edward Island: A World Apart No More (A pastoral realm of patchwork farms and sweeping Atlantic
vistas, Canada’s smallest province braces for the changes brought by a new
eight-mile bridge to the mainland.)
|
 | The
Whitbread: Race into Danger
(Violent seas of the southern
Indian Ocean
make for a wild ride for nine sloops wailing one of the roughest legs of an
eight-month round-the-world race.)
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June
1998
 | Russian’s
Iron Road (Stretching
5,770 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the
world’s longest, links a land still adjusting to the end of the Soviet
era.)
|
 | The
Elusive Quetzal
(The iridescent bird revered by ancient Mesoamericans has become a rare
sight as its habitat falls to human encroachment.)
|
 | Orkney:
Ancient
North Sea
Haven (Verdant
gems on a violent sea, these Scottish isles reflect pride in a Viking past.)
|
 | Americana:
Fast Times in Stock Car Country (From small-town dirt tracks to sleek NASCAR raceways like
Daytona, stock car racing has accelerated into America’s fastest growing
spectator sport.)
|
 | Golden
Harvest of the Raji
(Honey hunters in southern
Nepal
trace floral trails to lofty hives. But life among the Raji is no stroll
down a garden path.)
|
 | Deep
Mysteries of
Kaikoura
Canyon
(Does the
legendary giant squid lurk in this mile-deep ravine off
New Zealand
? Sperm whales bearing scars of huge thrashing tentacles suggest so.)
|
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A Special Place
: Adirondack High
(
New York
State
’s blue-water lakes and fir-clad mountains promise peace of mind –
despite periodic spats between conservationists and eager developers.)
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July
1998
 | Living
with Natural Hazards
(Ice storms, tornadoes, floods, wildfires – all exact a high price, yet
more and more people are living where such disasters are most likely to
strike. Double Map Supplement: Natural Hazards of
North America
.)
|
 | Lure
of the Frogfish
(Thriving in warm water around the globe, the frogfish can change color,
walk on its fins, and attract prey with wormlike “bait’ that dangles
from a spine on its head.)
|
 | Civilized
Denmark
(A clean and
prosperous land with virtually no crime or poverty, the smallest country in
Scandinavia
is, according to an American humorist, “the World’s Most Nearly Perfect
Nation” – except in winter.)
|
 | Dinosaurs
Take Wing (New
fossil discoveries from China reveal astonishing feathered creatures that
lived more than 120 million years ago and appear to confirm what scientists
have long theorized: Birds are dinosaurs.)
|
 | The
Untamed
Yukon River
(A century ago tens of thousands of prospectors
rafted its length dreaming of gold. Today
North America
’s fifth largest river yields a mother lode of empty space to dreamers
with an itch for challenge and elbowroom.)
|
 | Research
Update: New Inca Mummies
(High in the Peruvian Andes archaeologists have uncovered the remains of
four more human sacrifices, adding new insights into the complex spiritual
life on an ancient people.)
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August
1998
 | Mars
and Titanic in 3-D: Glasses Inside
(1 set of glasses is included with this magazine, Very Good Condition.)
|
 | Return
to Mars (3-D)
(Twenty-one years after NASA landed its first emissary on the red planet,
Pathfinder touched down on July 4, 1997, and recorded imaged and data that
astounded the world.)
|
 | Orangutans
in the Wild (Backbreaking
fieldwork and meticulous attention to scientific detail bring a deeper
understanding of the elusive red apes of the
Borneo
rain forest.<)
|
 | New York
’s Chinatown
(As immigration to
New York
surges, this vibrant
Manhattan
neighborhood provides Chinese newcomers a familiar setting in which to build
their American dream.)
|
 | Bottlenose
Whales: Pioneering research tracks deep divers of the
North Atlantic
(At home in
pitch-dark depths lethal to most marine mammals, these cetaceans may be the
deepest divers of all.)
|
 | The
Dawn of Humans: Redrawing Our Family Tree? (
South Africa
yields fossil evidence that challenges old assumptions about
humankind’s beginnings.)
|
 | Indonesia’s
Plague of Fire (Unchecked
fires smolder throughout the rain forests of Sumatra and Borneo, spawning
respiratory illness, traffic accidents, and food shortages across Southeast
Asia.)
|
 | Titanic:
Tragedy in Three Dimensions (3-D) (Computer-aided
editing transforms scenes from a diver’s video into extraordinary still
lifes of the somber wreck lying 12,500 feet below the surface.)
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September
1998
 | Valley
of the Kings (In
a narrow valley near
Luxor
Egyptologists are excavating a royal tomb of unprecedented size, revealing
new details of the lives of the pharaohs 3,000 years ago.)
|
 | A
New Day for
Romania
(With the
execution of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu on Christmas Day, 1989,
Romania
threw off repressive communist rule. Now the nation struggles to find its
place in a free-market, democratic
Europe
.)
|
 | Greenland
Sharks
(Lurking beneath the Arctic ice, huge sharks consume seals and other
large prey as if they were mere morsels. For the first time these sluggish,
nearly blind creatures are photographed in their frigid habitat.)
|
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Special Place: Vermont: Suite of Seasons (Ever changing, ever the same, a far corner of the Green
Mountain State known as the Northeast Kingdom qualifies as a special place
to a longtime resident.)
|
 | Catherine
the Great (Overthrowing
her husband, Peter III, a German princess became Empress of
Russia
in 1762 and embarked on a 34-year campaign of empire building.)
|
 | Searching
the Depths of Borneo’s
White Mountain
(Riddled with networks of unexplored caves, 3,161-foot Gunung Buda
harbors a wealth of plant and animal species in its depths and on its
rain-forested slopes.) |
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October
1998
 | Millennium
Series 3: Population: One in six billion (More people means more demands – for
space, nourishment, security, opportunity. Can the needs of all be met?
Millennium Supplement: Population.)
|
 | The
Millennium Series: Human Migration
(We are constantly on the move, from countryside to city and nation to
nation, driven by ambition, political upheaval, and natural disasters.)
|
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Millennium Series: Women and Population (Birthrates fall and hopes rise as women gain access to
education and health care.)
|
 | The
Millennium Series: Feeding the Planet (So far, global food production has kept pace with a burgeoning
population. Maintaining that balance and finding ways to share Earth’s
bounty are critical challenges.)
|
 | Lewis
and Clark: Naturalist-Explorers (Enthralled by “Barking Squirrels” and
unimagined vistas, these naturalist-explorers emerged from the newly
acquired Louisiana Purchase in 1806 with a valuable treasure: a detailed
account of the land and creatures of the Rockies and beyond.)
|
 | Perfume,
the Essence of Illusion
(Orchestrating the fragrances of nature – and their chemical
counterparts – master perfumers create a commodity no one needs but almost
everyone wants. The multibillion-dollar scent industry is smelling like a
rose.)
|
 | Timeless
Valleys of the Antarctic Desert (Scientists studying an ice-free enclave known as
the Dry Valleys discover microscopic organisms living inside frozen rocks
and minuscule worms that survive freeze-dried for decades.) |
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November
1998
 | Wilderness:
America
’s Lands Apart (Early settlers saw the continent’s forested wildlands as a
fearful challenge. Today people seek nature to recharge their urbanized
souls. Nearly 5 percent of
U.S.
land has been designated wilderness, but how it is used and managed is far
from settled.)
|
 | A
Comeback for the Cossacks
(Armed with memories of bygone glory, a centuries-old warrior caste
crusades for order and discipline in tumultuous modern
Russia
.)
|
 | Maui
Surf: In the Teeth of Jaws
(A dozen times a year Pacific storms and the underwater topography of
Maui
’s north shore combine to create monster waves called jaws. Only a handful
of surfers even try to ride the Hawaiian behemoths.)
|
 | Zanzibar
’s Endangered Red
Colobus Monkeys
(Deforestation and low reproductive rate could spell the end for
tree-dwelling monkeys on the increasingly crowded East African
island
of
Zanzibar
.)
|
 | Shackleton
Expedition: Epic of Survival
(After pack ice trapped their ship, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his
men abandoned their dream of crossing Antarctica on foot and began a
20-month struggle to survive.)
|
 | Abusir
Tomb: Egyptian Priest’s Undisturbed Burial Discovered (The crypt of an Egyptian priest, hidden deep
below the sands and undisturbed for 2,500 years, promises to yield knowledge
as valuable as a pharaoh’s treasure.)
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 | Nebraska:
Standing Tall Again
(Street gangs have sprung up in Omaha, but heartland values hold firm in
a land where neighbors are quick to lend a hand.) |
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December
1998
 | South
China Sea: Crossroads of
Asia
(Carrying a third of the world’ shipping, these
waters are churned by the competing territorial claims of border nations.)
|
 | Dinosaur
Embryos: Unscrambling the Past Patagonia (Unearthed from the wind-scoured landscape of
Patagonia
, exquisitely preserved eggs of plant-eating sauropods yield first ever
fossils of embryonic dinosaur skin.)
|
 | Barcelona
: State of the New
Europe (A
mixture of common sense and refreshing lunacy has turned this Spanish city
into an economic powerhouse and international showcase – a model for a
peaceful and prosperous
Europe
.)
|
 | Nunataks:
Icebound Islands of Life
(On icebound peaks that rise above the glaciers of Canada’s Yukon
Territory, flowers and insects flourish, lost migrating birds perish, and
furry pikas survive by scavenging the dead.)
|
 | Winslow
Homer: American Original
(Big-spending collectors are snapping up the masterpieces of this
American artist whose subjects ran the gamut of national life, from
schoolyard games to the Civil War.)
|
 | Body
Beasts: No Man is an
Island
. He is an Ecosystem.
(You’ve got company – and plenty of it. Mites make their home in your
eyelash follicles, bacteria colonize your skin, and fleas and lice drop by
for blood meals.)
|
 | Petra,
Ancient City of Stone
(Like smoke from a Bedouin campfire, a haunting sense of antiquity hangs
over these immense carved ruins in the Jordanian desert.) |
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 | Coral
Eden Like teeming cities in the sea,
coral reefs rival raw
forests in diversity of life, and nowhere are they more spectacular than
in the tropical western Pacific.
|
 | Coral
in Peril The world's coral reefs touch our lives in many ways,
yet an alarming number off them have been degraded or destroyed.
|
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Lawrence
of
Arabia
Leading a personal crusade for Arab
Independence, this
Oxford
scholar-turned-warrior altered the course
of history and was lionized as the "uncrowned King of Arabia"
|
 | Tracking
the Anaconda Researchers engaged in the first ever
field study of the world's largest snake, the green anaconda, investigate
"Breeding balls" to learn how these South American serpents
reproduce.
|
 | Hitting
the Wall Climbers inch up 2,400 feet of sheer stone.
to tile summit of
Great
Sail
Peak
on
Canada
’s ice-glazed
Baffin Island
.
|
 | Research
Committee From dinosaur embryos to the dance
language of bees, the NGS Committee for Research and Exploration
enhanced our view of the world with more than 250 grants in 1998.
|
 | Ravens
Revered as omens, reviled as destructive pests, these giant
black songbirds exhibit an impressive variety of complex behaviors.
|
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Popocatepetl
in the shadow of an awakened volcano, Mexican
Government officials prepare to evacuate threatened villages, while
residents cling to their land despite occasional eruptions of ash and rock.
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February
1999
 | Millennium
Series 4: Biodiversity: Taking Stock of Life
(Hosting an astonishing array of living things, our hospitable planet is
becoming less so for many species. An introduction to this special issue.
Millennium Supplement: Biodiversity.)
|
 | The
Variety of Life
(Species too numerous to count are disappearing too quickly to record.
From Central America to
Asia
, five articles take you to the font lines of the fight to save Earth’s
biological treasures.)
|
 | Wilderness
Headcount
|
 | The
Sixth Extinction
|
 | Restoring
Madagascar
|
 | In
Search of Solutions
|
 | Under
Antarctic Ice (Diving
beneath a stark, frozen desert, ocean explorers discover a world of
startling color, clarity, and life.)
|
 | Forest
Elephants (In
a remote clearing in the Central African Republic, biologist Andrea Turkalo
observes the lives of endangered animals that until recently were only
glimpsed through the trees.)
|
 | Diatoms:
Plants with a Touch of Glass
(Under a high-powered microscope the silica shells of single-celled algae
are revealed in all their manifold beauty.)
|
 | Ants
and Plants: A Profitable Partnership (In nutrient-poor forests ants and plants have evolved to meet
each other’s needs. Rare photographs from
Borneo
show the only known swimming ants helping their hosts – pitcher plants –
digest other insects.) |
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March
1999
 | Journey
to the Heart of the Sahara
(Through a land ravaged by war, poverty, and the relentless desert sun,
two men travel 4,000 miles in a modern-day caravan in search of an ancient
way of life.)
|
 | Riding
the Wind: Photographing the
Sahara
from Aloft (Taking
to the sky with a paraglider, a motorized backpack, and three gallons of
gas, a daring photographer gains an extraordinary perspective on the desert.)
|
 | Unlocking
the Labyrinth of North Florida Springs (Cave divers probe the dark depths of these natural
fountains to puzzle out the intricacies of
Florida
’s flooded basement.)
|
 | The
Russian Realm of Steller’s Sea–Eagles (These powerful raptors build nests as big as king-size beds and
feast on rich salmon runs in Russia’s Far East.)
|
 | El
Nino/La Nina: Nature’s Vicious Cycle (Improved warning systems have reduced the destruction, but the
periodic warming and cooling of Pacific waters continue to blast the globe
with deadly storms.)
|
 | In
the Wake of the Spill: Ten Years After Exxon Valdez (Ten years after the Exxon Valdez fouled 1,300 miles
of Alaska coastline, the oil spill’s impact on wildlife, and human lives,
is still being calculated.)
|
 | Swamp
Thing: Unmasking the Snapping Turtle (Often the hunted and not the hunter, these surprisingly
graceful denizens of ponds and streams can live more than a hundred years
and weigh in at 200 pounds.)
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1999
 | Galapagos:
Paradise in Peril (Tourism,
development, and abnormal weather threaten the unique island ecosystem that
inspired
Darwin
’s theory of natural selection.)
|
 | Galapagos
Underwater (In
the grip of El Nino the normally cold, rich seas that support a bountiful
food chain warmed, with dire consequences to penguins, iguanas, and sea
lions.)
|
 | Traveling
the
Blues Highway
(One of the
largest internal migrations in
U.S.
history took place this century as black Americans left the South in search
of social and economic equality, carrying with them the soulful music known
as the blues.)
|
 | Journey
to the Copper Age
(Archaeologist retrace a copper-trading route used 6,500 years ago and
unearth discoveries that shed light on the lives of ancient metalworkers in
the
Middle East
.)
|
 | Ghosts
and Survivors: Return To The
Battle
of Midway (After
crippling the
U.S.
Pacific Fleet at
Pearl Harbor
,
Japan
set out to deal it a death blow at Midway. Fifty-six years later former foes
relive those harrowing hours as explorer Robert D. Ballard locates the grave
of the U.S.S. Yorktown.)
|
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A Special Place
: Texas Hill Country
(Sit a spell by the cool, spring-fed streams of central
Texas
and you’ll see why cityfolk are heading for the hills.)
|
 | The
Pools of Spring
(As winter melts away, small ponds begin to dot the fields and woodlands
of
North America
. By mid-spring they teem with salamanders and frogs; by late summer they
are gone.)
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May
1999
 | The
Rise and Fall of the
Caspian Sea
(Five countries now ring the Caspian, where
two stood only a decade ago. The
Soviet Union
’s breakup left regional economies in tatters; it also spurred the biggest
oil rush of the past quarter century.)
|
 | Africa
’s Wild Dogs
(Dogs? Not really. Wild? Definitely. Only distantly related to any of the
world’s other canids, these bush hunters live in sociable packs but suffer
a bloodthirsty reputation.)
|
 | Pirates
of the Whydah (Survivors
swore the Whydah was packed with plunder when a nor’easter swamped her off
Cape Cod
in 1717. Now salvagers searching for the loot have hit archaeological gold:
artifacts offering a treasure trove of insights into the lives of pirates.)
|
 | The
Missouri
Breaks (In
the river-gouged plains of eastern
Montana
folks tough as branding irons find community, when they want it.)
|
 | Ants
and Plants: Friends and Foes
(In return for sustenance, ants pollinate and guard plants. But when ants
ravage crucial nutrients, plants retaliate. Rarely captured images
illustrate relationships both symbiotic and hostile.)
|
 | The
Rise of Life on Earth: From Fins to Feet (Did ancient fish haul themselves ashore on fins that later
became limbs? Probably not, according to new discoveries suggesting that the
legs animals use to walk on land originated in the Devonian period for life
in the water.) |
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June
1999
 | Cuba
: Evolution in the
Revolution (
Cuba
’s revolution ages, perhaps mellows, but keeps its grip on this island
nation. Quick as ever to point out their accomplishments under socialism,
Cubans now recognize the growing power of the U.S. dollar in their country.)
|
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Rebirth of Old
Havana
(Renovation in the heart of
Cuba
’s capital city illuminates centuries of architectural splendor.)
|
 | A
Dinosaur Named Sue
(When the prehistoric object of a bitter custody battle sold for 8.36
million dollars, scientists finally began to piece together the skeleton,
and saga, of the largest T. rex ever found.)
|
 | John
Glenn: Man With a
Mission
(In 1962
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Thirty-six years
later, at the age of 77, the senator returned to space to help us understand
how the body ages, and to remind us that the spirit never dies.)
|
 | Tam
Dao: Vietnam’s Sanctuary Under Siege (A refuge for wildlife, and for weekenders from Hanoi, also
draws international scientists, who are cataloging the rare and endangered
creatures of Vietnam’s new national park even as poachers scoop them up.)
|
 | Ancient
Art of the
Sahara
(Intriguing scenes carved in rock shelters and on
cliffs survive the elements but fall victim to collectors.)
|
 | Deep
Soul of the New River
(The oldest river on the eastern seaboard flows through the Appalachians
with waters calm enough for church baptisms and wild enough for white-water
rafters.)
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1999
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Iran
: Testing the Waters
of Reform (After
two decades under the ayatollahs, many Iranians yearn for greater freedom
and less state control. Their champion, President Mohammad Khatami, nudges
the country toward more openness but faces a deepening power struggle.)
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 | Mars
on Earth (In
the battered landscape of an impact crater, scientists in the Canadian
Arctic find ideal ground for testing methods to explore the red planet.)
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 | The
Shrinking World of Hornbills
(From Africa to
Melanesia
, hunting and habitat loss threaten the survival of regal birds that nest in
a way that is all their own.)
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 | The
Quest for Color
(Battles raged over it, fortunes flowed from it, and songs and legends
sprang from it. Today humans still scour the Earth, and the laboratory, for
dyes and pigments to interpret and enhance their world.)
|
 | Celebrating
Canyon Country:
Grand
Staircase-Escalante
National Monument
(The
creation of
Grand
Staircase-Escalante
National Monument
in southern
Utah
adds nearly two million acres of unsullied wilderness to the
United States
’ cache of protected land.)
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 | Listening
to Humpback Whales
(In every ocean on Earth humpbacks sing, socialize, and make journeys as
long as the sea is wide. Scientists record the songs, chart the travels, and
observe the family life of these endangered giants, whose numbers now seem
to be increasing.)
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August
1999
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 | Millennium
Series 5: Global Culture (As old patterns make way for new, our thinking and
our ways of life become more urban, more cosmopolitan, less diverse. An
introduction to this special issue. Millennium Supplement: Culture.)
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 | A
World Together (With
Internet use soaring and airfares falling, global exchange of information,
products, and ideas has exploded. Will our cultural differences survive?)
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 | Tale
of Three Cities:
Alexandria
,
Cordoba
, and
New York
(
Alexandria
,
Egypt
, at the start of the first millennium;
Cordoba
,
Spain
, at the beginning of the second; and
New York
,
New York
, at the dawn of the third: What do they tell us about cities past, present,
and future?)
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 | Vanishing
Cultures (Indigenous
peoples have become the human equivalent of endangered species. Now many
battle to save the things that define them: their lifeway, their language,
and their land.)
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 | Italy’s
Endangered Art (In
a place where Roman coins lie underfoot and Renaissance frescoes adorn
countless ceilings, preserving art treasure from natural disasters and the
ravages of time requires the effort of an entire nation.)
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 | The
Power of Writing
(An invention whose impact seems impossible to measure first appeared in
Mesopotamia
5,000 years ago. Using systems of writing from Maya glyphs to Chinese
calligraphy, humans have chronicled history, lobbied for freedom, and
expressed the emotions of the ages.) |
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September
1999
 | Kashmir:
Trapped in Conflict
(
India
,
Pakistan
, and Kashmiri separatists continue their increasingly dangerous struggle
over Himalayan territory that once delighted residents and travelers alike.)
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 | Around
At Last!, by
Bertrand Piccard (In March of this year, Swiss doctor Bertrand Piccard
and British balloon instructor Brian Jones became the first balloonists to
circle the globe nonstop. In an exclusive account, Piccard describes their
journey.)
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 | Masai
Passage to Manhood
(In an elaborate, emotional ceremony
Africa
’s Masai elevate warriors to the status of elders.)
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 | Olive
Oil, Elixir of the Gods
(The World is discovering what Mediterranean peoples have known for
millennia: The salubrious oil of the olive is an essential ingredient of the
good life.)
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 | Preserving
the Sahara’s Prehistoric Art (Researchers make a cast of monumental giraffes carved into
desert stone 7,000 years ago in
Niger
.)
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 | Hunting
With Eagles In The Mountains of
Mongolia
(On the high
plateau of western
Mongolia
, ethnic Kazakhs practice a centuries-old tradition.)
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 | Rodeos:
Behind the Chutes
(Getting bruised and broken more for love than money, cowboys ride
broncos, wrestle steers, and otherwise get their kicks at dirt rings across
the U.S. and Canada.)
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 | Galileo
Mission: In the Court of King Jupiter (NASA’s once troubled Jupiter spacecraft captures astounding
images of the king of planets and its intriguing moon.)
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October
1999
 | Millennium
Series Pt 6 (of 6): Science: Asking Infinite Questions
(From the matter that makes up the universe to the strands of DNA that
make us who we are, scientists are steadily unlocking the secrets of the
ages. Millennium Supplement: The Universe.)
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 | Unveiling
the Universe (Astronomers
claim the universe itself as their laboratory. Their subjects: black holes,
exploding stars, and alien worlds that could harbor intelligent life.)
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 | Secrets
of the Gene (As
scientists race to crack the code of human life, breakthroughs in genetic
research are yielding powerful new tools that hold shining promise and raise
unsettling questions.)
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 | Valley
of the Mummies (Archaeologists
at an Egyptian oasis have uncovered a vast burial site containing gilded
mummies and stunning artifacts from a world that vanished nearly 1,700 years
ago.)
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 | Cuba
’s Colonial
Treasure (Rich
in 18th century architecture, the small town of
Trinidad
has been acclaimed a World Heritage site.)
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 | Mystery
on Everest: How I Found the Body of Climber George Mallory, Missing for 75
Years, by Conrad
Anker (This spring the author found the body of the British mountaineer
who disappeared 75 years ago while climbing
Mount Everest
. Was Mallory the first man to reach the summit?)
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 | The
Last Dive (In
1944 the Japanese submarine 1-52 made a fatal attempt to deliver precious
cargo-including two tons of gold bound for the Japanese Embassy in Berlin.
Three miles deep in the
Atlantic
, the wreck of the submarine yields a wealth of memories but no gold.) |
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November 1999
 | Eyewitness
Iraq (Oil-rich
Iraq has spent a fortune on war, but the country’s treasure-among the
largest petroleum reserves in the world-has brought neither peace nor
prosperity for the Iraqi people.)
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 | Tiger
Sharks (A
feathered feast awaits the big predators in
Hawaii
when fledgling albatrosses take to sea.)
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 | Frozen
in Time: At 22,000 Feet Children of Inca Sacrifice Found (Three 500-year-old mummies unearthed on a
22,000-foot peak in the
Andes
tell an extraordinary story of Inca worship and child sacrifice.)
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 | Panama
’s Rite of Passage
(When the
United States
hands over the Panama Canal in December,
Panama
will be without its biggest benefactor and on its own for the first time.)
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 | African
Marriage Rituals
(Draped in sliver or intricate bead jewelry, brides follow age-old
traditions in elaborate wedding ceremonies from
Morocco
to
South Africa
.)
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 | Feathers
for T. Rex?: New Birdlike Fossils Are Missing Links in Dinosaur Evolution
(Spectacular fossil finds from
China
and
Mongolia
provide important new links between birds and their dinosaur predecessors.)
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 | After
the Deluge: Central America’s Storm of the Century (Already sodden at the end of the rainy
season,
Central America
was ripe for disaster when Hurricane Mitch struck last fall. Survivors
recall the
Atlantic
’s deadliest tempest in two centuries.)
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December
1999
 | Cheetahs:
Ghosts of the Grasslands (Hunted by ranchers, attacked by lions, and deprived of much of
their African and Asian habitat, cheetahs in the wild number perhaps 2,000.
Can conservationists move quickly enough to protect the world’s fastest
land animal?)
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 | Florida
Keys: Paradise with Attitude
(Paying the price of popularity, this South Florida island chain faces
escalating real estate costs and degradation of the only living barrier reef
in the continental U.S. But that hasn’t stopped the party.)
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 | Heroes
of the Heroic Age: Ancient
Greece
Part I (Echoes
of Homer’s epic poem the Iliad emerge from Bronze Age sites around the
Aegean Sea
in the first of three articles about this legendary civilization.)
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 | Geographic
Century: Expanding Human Vision (As the Society pushed the technological boundaries of
photography, its staid research journal was transformed by arresting images
of our world.)
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 | Guardians
of the Fairy Tales: The Brothers Grimm (Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding
Hood: The fairy-tale characters that have entered world culture came alive
on paper in the early 1800s when Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected oral
tales in their German homeland.)
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 | Survey
2000: Charting Communities and Change (More than 80,000 people from 178 countries and
territories logged on to National Geographic’s website to take our
sociological survey. What they had to say may surprise you.) |
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