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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.)
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| 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.)
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| 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.)
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| 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.)
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| 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.)
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| Racing
with the Wind (Competitors
from three nations last winter attempted the first nonstop girdling of the
globe by balloon.)
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| 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.)
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| 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.)
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| 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.)
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| 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
.)
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| 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.)
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| 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.)
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| 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.)
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| 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.)
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| 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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