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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 2000 - 2004
January
2000
SPECIAL
MILLENNIUM ISSUE
 | Celebrations
of Earth and Beyond
(From the mist-wreathed Chinese mountains to the wind-scoured Saudi
desert, a gallery of photographs captures some of the most striking vistas
of our planet as we begin the year 2000.)
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| Life
Beyond Earth (What’s
out there? Astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial life for
centuries. They have yet to find an alien microbe, much less intelligent
life, but the eyes of science are seeing father than ever before.)
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| Rediscovering
America
(A
British-born author and a Polish photographer travel across the
United States
, each for a second time, in search of hope, harmony, and their own American
dream.)
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|
Tibet
Embraces the New
Year (In a
sacred and festive celebration each winter, Tibetan Buddhists perform
rituals to secure prosperity for the months ahead.)
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| The
Enigma of Beauty
(We humans care passionately about how we look. Throughout history and in
every part of the world we have primped, preened, posed, and sometimes put
our health on the line, all for an ideal no one can truly define.)
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| Light
in the Deep (For
a quarter century David Doubilet has delved beneath the ocean’s surface to
astonish us with illuminating images of this dark realm.)
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February
2000
| Black
Dragon
River
(A narrow
ribbon of water separates two worlds that could hardly be more different: an
impoverished corner of
Russia
and
China
’s economically energized
Heilongjiang
Province
.)
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| The
Rise of Life on Earth
(Forty-nine million years ago dinosaurs were long extinct and mammals on
the ascent. Species of that time have been remarkably preserved in a mine
pit as
Messel
,
Germany
.)
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| Albanians:
A People Undone
(Scattered from the Balkans to the
Bronx
, Albanians hold fast to what they have left, an impoverished Eastern
European homeland and deep ethnic pride.)
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| Eyewitness
Kosovo (During
the grim months before NATO intervened in Kosovo, a French photographer
witnessed the anguish and upheaval of the Balkans’ recurring bloodbath.)
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| Central
Africa’s Orphan Gorillas
(In Congo and Gabon dedicated workers evaded civil war to nurture,
socialize, and ultimately release western lowland gorillas back into the
wild.)
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| Selma
to
Montgomery
(A 1965
protest march from a small Alabama city to the state capital sparked
Congress to ensure protection of black Americans’ right to vote.)
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| Ancient
Greece
(Elegant
proportions and riotous color, tragedy and comedy, democracy and slavery:
The roots and realities of the Classical Age belie our assumptions in the
second of a three-part series.) |
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March
2000
| Madidi
National Park (Champions
of Bolivia’s new national park hope ecotourism will preserve this
extraordinarily diverse corner of the Amazon, but a hydroelectric dam could
jeopardize its future.)
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| Bugging
Out (A
photographer’s dream can also be his worst nightmare. Join Joel Sartore in
Madidi as he waits for killer swine, digs burrowing maggots from his flesh,
and sleeps with bats and sweat bees.)
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| Arctic
Submarine (Beneath
the icy surface of the Arctic Ocean, scientists aboard a Navy submarine map
uncharted waters and gather clues about Earth’s changing climate.)
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| Ancient
Greece III (After
Alexander the Great’s 12-year campaign of slaughter and conquest his Greek
language and culture linked kingdoms from Egypt to the Indus Valley for
three centuries.)
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| Hard
Rock Legacy (Gold,
silver, and other hardrock mining contributed a colorful page to the history
of the American West. Tainted by past blunders, the modern-day industry
struggles to reconcile high stakes economics with sound environmental
practices.)
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| Stone
Cold Ascent (In
the wicked Patagonian winter four men scale the sheer west face of Cerro
Torre, a rare and dangerous first in the world of rock climbing.)
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| Beijing
(Bolstered
by foreign investment,
Beijing
’s booming economy is transforming the cityscape of
China
’s ancient Capital as well as the lifestyle and expectations of its
inhabitants.)
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April
2000
| Great
White Sharks (The
unmistakable jaws of the great white have long been synonymous with terror.
Researchers are now discovering the vulnerable side of this magnificent
predator.)
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| Yemen
(A young republic in
a medieval cloak,
Yemen
is a world of contradictions where veiled women have the vote and tribesmen
carry daggers and cell phones.)
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|
Chiquibul
Cave
(Exhilaration
and disappointment accompany divers as they explore submerged passages
thought to link segments of a 60-mile-long cave complex on the
Belize-Guatemala border.)
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| Update
From the Field (Our
research grantees roam the world, calculating the height of Mount Everest or
studying
Fiji
’s coral reefs. Their work is often difficult and sometimes dangerous, but
it’s always an adventure.)
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| San
Pedro
River
(An oasis for desert animals and migrating
birds, San Pedro’s waters are under siege by thirsty
Arizona
communities.)
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| Nature’s
Rx (Where
Western medicine hasn’t been an option, and today even where it is,
millions turn to traditional therapies to cure their ills. Do natural
remedies really work, and can science unlock their secrets?)
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| Duck-billed
Platypus (A
bizarre and elusive creature that once swam with dinosaurs now inhabits the
waterways of
Melbourne
. Increasingly, its future rests in the hands of
Australia
’s urban residents.)
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May
2000
| In
Search of Vikings (Viking
seafarers – raiders, traders, craftsmen – burst from Scandinavia in the
eighth century, carrying their freewheeling pagan ways from the Gulf of St.
Lawrence to the Aral Sea)
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| Mystery
Ships From a Danish Bog (Sleek,
oar-powered vessels teach archaeologists about Scandinavian raiders who were
pillaging coastal towns 450 years before the Viking age began.)
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| Queen
of the African Sky (In
1920 two pioneering aviators completed the first aerial journey from
England
to the southern tip of
Africa
. Modern adventurers attempt to reenact this deed of derring-do.)
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| New Caledonia
(The
Pacific isles of
New Caledonia
make their mark on the world with a wealth of plant species found nowhere
else.)
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| Dawn
of Humans (Exploring
the hills close to home, not far from
Johannesburg
, South African geologist Andre Keyser made the find of his career –
Drimolen, among the richest hominid sites in
Africa
.)
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| Ants
and Plants (Tropical
“ant plants” recruit armies of loyal insect defenders by providing tasty
rations and barracks fit for a queen.)
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|
Cape
Hatteras
Lighthouse (This
Outer Banks beacon shines again after a half-mile retreat from the advancing
Atlantic surf.)
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| Mount
St. Helens (Herds
of elk now flow past stands of alder 20 years after eruptions ravaged 230
square miles of the
Pacific Northwest
.)
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June
2000
| London
(
Britain
’s capital city has shed its staid reputation. Newly enlivened by hot
culture and cold cash,
London
is redefining itself as a global trendsetter.)
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| Debut
Sue (The
largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered has found new stomping grounds at
Chicago
’s
Field
Museum
.)
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| Suriname
(Can local
knowledge of medicinal plants protect the South American rain forest and
bolster this young nation’s economy?)
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| Sierra
Madre Pilgrimage (In
a 1,300-mile journey through the mountains of
Mexico
, the author pursues the past – his own and that of an enigmatic 19th
century Norwegian explorer.)
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| Jelly
Bellies (The
beauty of these drifting predators may surprise those who know jellyfish
only as a bane of the beach.)
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| In
Focus: Golan Heights (Since
1948 this small patch of land overlooking the Jordan River has been a source
of contention between
Israel
and
Syria
. Now it may be the bargaining chip that finally brings them peace.)
|
| Indus
Civilization (Archaeologists
unearth clues to ancient cities – long disappeared – that once
flourished in the
Indus
Valley
of
Pakistan
and northwestern
India
.) |
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Britain
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Ireland
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July
2000
|
Australia
: A Harsh Awakening (The
first European settlers wanted this island continent’s bizarre landscape
to look more like home. Now barren fields of salt and dwindling marsupial
populations have Australians wrangling over how to repair damage done to
their unique environment.)
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| Wrath
of the Gods: Earthquake in
Turkey
– A History Forged by Disaster (Last year two massive quakes tore through
Turkey
, killing tens of thousands and leaving many more homeless. The relentless
tectonic forces that have rocked the region for millennia nurtured myths of
Poseidon and tales of
Troy
and may explain why Noah had to build an ark.)
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| The
Samoan Way (A
tropical paradise in a remote corner of the Pacific Ocean, American Samoa is
home to a new U.S. national park that aims to protect the islands’ rain
forests, coral reefs, and traditional Samoan culture.)
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| People
Like Us (When
did humans begin to create art, practice rituals, develop sophisticated
hunting strategies? Anthropologists have long associated the advent of the
“modern” mind with the Cro-Magnons, who arrived in
Europe
some 40,000 years ago, but recent evidence suggests that the transition may
have happened thousands of years earlier.)
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| Playing
the Slots (A
canyoneer’s heaven can quickly turn into a watery hell as flash floods
continue to carve the sandstone slot canyons along the Utah-Arizona border.) |
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August
2000
| Special
Tear-out Map:
Sydney
Olympics
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| Sydney
(When the Summer
Olympics turn the spotlight on
Sydney
,
Australia
’s host city will reach for the gold in presentation, originality, and
unpretentious gusto for life.)
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| People
of Heaven (Scarred
by apartheid and ensnared in bloody conflict, the Zulus, South Africa’s
most populous ethnic group, seek hope for the future by taking pride in
tradition.)
|
| Monsters
of
Madagascar
(Pug-nosed
herbivorous crocodiles, flesh-eating birds, and what may be the oldest
dinosaurs ever found enrich the fossil record of Mesozoic creatures.)
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| Fungi
(Nature’s
recyclers, these ubiquitous organisms both nourish and destroy life by
living on plants, animals, and even us.)
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| Phips’s
Fleet (Retreating
from a failed attack on
Quebec
in 1690, Sir William Phips lost at least one of his ships in the
St. Lawrence River
. Its discovery sheds new light on everyday life in the American Colonies.)
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| The
Temples
of Angkor (Preservationists in
Cambodia
struggle to keep
Angkor
’s sacred temples intact while looters threaten to erase the few remaining
traces of the ancient Khmer Empire.)
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| Big
Sur (Along 90
miles of California coastline, Big Sur rises in a spectacular meeting of
pounding sea and stark wilderness. In this rugged sanctuary nature is as
unforgiving as it is beautiful.)
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September
2000
| The
Unbeatable Body (Relentlessly
pushing body and mind, athletes probe the limits of human performance.)
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| The
Way West (The
California Trail) (Dreaming of land and gold, wagon train pioneers blazed
a 2,000-mile trail from
Missouri
to
California
.)
|
| Lost
Tombs of
Peru
(An expert
team searches the Andean cloud forest for unlooted tombs of an ancient
warrior people.)
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| Rana
Tharu Women (When
warfare left them widows, legend says, these women who had fled to the
forest of southern Nepal founded a society that has endured for 400 years.)
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| The
Rise of Life on Earth (About
90 percent of all species vanished in a mysterious mass extinction 250
million years ago.)
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| In
Search of the Clouded Leopard (A
17-year-old American continues a family tradition of conservation in
India
.)
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Mentone
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Texas
(Water is
scarce and people scarcer, but in Mentone the human spirit flows as steadily
as the oil. |
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October
2000
Megatransect
(A
conservationist sets out to survey 1,200 miles of African jungle the
old-fashioned way – on foot – in the first of a three-part series of
articles.)
| Sky-High
Over the Sonoran (Sculpted
by wind and water, this intriguing North American desert reveals itself from
aloft.)
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| Boston
’s North Enders (In
the face of change, tight-knit Little
Italy
keeps the accent on good friends and good food.)
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| Wild
Gliders (A mélange
of creatures in
Borneo
’s rain forest have evolved gravity-defying means of travel.)
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| New
Eyes on the Oceans (Riding
a wave a new technology, scientists are discovering more of the ocean’s
secrets, including the integral role the seas play in shaping our climate.)
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|
Deep
Sea
Vents (Dramatic
new imagery from the Pacific seafloor reveals abundant life in a world
without sunlight.)
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| Report
to Members: Fossil Trail (Our
November 1999 issue showcased a “missing link” between dinosaurs and
birds that fooled us all.)
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November
2000
|
Libya
(After
three decades of international isolation, the nation works to shed its
outlaw image.)
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| Putorana
Plateau (An
expedition seeks
Siberia
’s wild heart.)
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| Inside
the Volcano (A
daredevil photographer leads a team of adventurers into an active volcano in
the South Pacific.)
|
| The
Art of Being Luis Marden (Writer,
photographer, explorer: Luis Marden’s 64 years with National Geographic
shaped the magazine.)
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| Preying
on Giants (In
Botswana
a pride of lions lives large.)
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| Nepal
(Gateway
to the
Himalaya
, the nation struggles under its old burden of poverty and a new one, urban
sprawl.)
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| Pueblo
Ancestors Return Home (Ancient
Native American remains are welcomed back to
New Mexico
after some 80 years away.)
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| ZipUSA:
Beverly Hills
(Here, looks
really are everything.
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December
2000
| Map
Supplement: Peopling of the
Americas
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| Blue Nile
(This
legendary river inspires both reverence and fear among the Ethiopians who
live along its banks.)
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| Polar
Bears (The
Arctic
’s most formidable predator has a tender side too.)
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| Dawn
of Humans (Who
were the first Americans? It’s an open question as archaeologists weight
the newest evidence.)
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| Fiordland
(Craggy arms
of rock reach toward the Tasman Sea in
New Zealand
’s largest national park.)
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| In
Search of
Lake
Wobegon
, by Garrison
Keillor (The
author’s famous fictional town is alive and well and operating under
several assumed names in the heart of
Minnesota
.)
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| Journey
to Shipton’s Arch (Five
adventurers travel to western
China
to become the first to climb this geologic wonder.)
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| ZipUSA:
North Pole,
Alaska
(Does this
suburban town live up to its name? If you run into Kris Kringel at the North
Pole Plaza Mall, ask him.)
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January
2001
| Beyond
Gravity, by Sir
Arthur Clarke (The year Arthur C. Clarke made famous is here. 2001’s
co-creator contemplates the third millennium.)
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| Surviving
in Space (A
voyage to Mars may be every astronaut’s dream, but the health risks to
even the most superbly conditioned Earthlings are formidable indeed.)
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| Great
Barrier Reef (Largest
structure on the planet built by living organisms,
Australia
’s coral rampart hosts a carnival of sea life.)
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| Mummers
Parade (Fantasy
and feathers rule in Philadelphia when New Year’s revelers take to the
streets in costumes fit for kings.)
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| Ancient
Ashkelon (From
Canaanites to Crusaders, the city of
Ashkelon
was a strategic Mediterranean port for nearly 5,000 years.)
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| Japan’s
Imperial Palace (The
heart of Tokyo shelters the home of Emperor Akihito – a modern ruler who
studies fish, writes poetry, and preserves the traditions of the world’s
oldest monarchy.)
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| ZipUSA:
Quartzsite (It’s
Nowhere,
Arizona
– until November. Then more than a million devotees of RVs roll in from
all over for swap meets, socializing, and the sunset-painted sky.)
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February 2001
| Map Supplement: Mars Revealed
| | Andes Journey (On familiar ground, an
Ecuadorian explores lifeways shaped by the lofty range that spans a
continent.)
| Mars (As the Mars Global Surveyor beams home
unprecedented images, our assumptions about the red planet explode.)
| Jewel Scarabs (Gleaming beetles from Central
America attract insect enthusiasts and offer hope for saving a priceless
habitat.)
| New Jersey Meadowlands (Home to rivers of
grass and rabid sports fans, a onetime trash heap shines in Manhattan’s
shadow.)
| Update From the Field (Elephants, ice, and
architecture – nothing escapes the purposeful gaze of the Society’s
research grantees.)
| Bushmen (Southern Africa’s
hunter-gatherers seek a foothold.)
| Paintings of the Spirit (Ancient rock art
sheds light on the trance experiences of Bushman shamans.)
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in the Hawaiians’ Hawaii.) |
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March 2001
| Megatransect II (Pushing through the heart
of the African jungle, ecologist Michael Fay continues his unprecedented
trek.)
| The Clearing (Deep in the Congo a sunny
glade attracts gorillas, elephants, antelope, and – for six weeks – a
dogged photographer.)
| Palmyra Atoll (A Pacific island paradise,
one of the world’s premier seabird breeding sites, has won protection
thanks to a private conservation group.)
| Moche Burials Uncovered (Extravagant grave
goods add to the mystery of this ancient people of Peru.)
| Indonesia (Religious zealots and regional
separatists force the issue: Can this far-flung nation hold together?)
| William Bartram (An American naturalist
explored the South just before the revolutionary War and left a legacy of
art and writings that shaped a young nation’s appreciation of its beauty.)
| ZipUSA: Rico, Colorado (It could be the
next Telluride, but for now this tiny mountain town likes its edges rough..) |
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April 2001
| Map Supplement: Ancient Egypt
| | A River Dammed (Columbia River salmon are in
decline despite heroic measures to sustain them, and Pacific Northwesterners
search their souls: Should some dams be dismantled to save the fish?)
| Pharaohs of the Sun (Akhenaten and his wife
Nefertiti ruled Egypt just long enough to transform the empire’s religion,
art, and architecture. Digs at Amarna yield clues to their enigmatic dynasty.)
| Pursuing the Minke (With a million of these
sleek, fast-breeding creatures in the seas, whaling nations, led by Norway and
Japan, urge an end to the 15-year-old ban on all commercial whaling.)
| Gypsies: The Outsiders (Romanticized as free
spirits, hounded for being different, the people who call themselves Roma
fight for their place in a world where there are few welcome mats.)
| Flower Trade (High-tech hybrids, brand
names, and the Internet invade a multibillion-dollar, world-girdling business
once dominated by family farms and now coming up roses.)
| ZipUSA: Harlem, New York (Long a mecca for
African Americans and foreign tourists, Harlem hits a high note as yuppies and
developers sing its praises. Residents are a bit worried.) |
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May 2001
| The Adventurers of Marco Polo Part I (The
storied Venetian trader escapes bandits, rampaging rivers, and sandstorms to
reach the border of far-off China in this first of three articles.)
| Jaguars (These elusive cats rank among
Latin America’s supreme predators. Conservationists seek to connect their
isolated refuges.)
| Black Sea Mysteries (Ancient shipwrecks
and telltale shells bring to life epics of distant trade and a prehistoric
flood.)
| Deadly Haven: Mexico’s Poisonous Cave (Cueva
de Villa Luz, or Cave of the Lighted House) (An underworld of hydrogen
sulfide harbors life-forms awesome and awful.)
| Pterosaurs (Largest animals that ever
flew, pterosaurs ruled the skies for 150 million years before their sudden
demise.)
| The Fragile World of Frogs ( Victims of
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