Vol. 54 No. 6, November - November 2002
Index
- From the editor.
- Close relations.
- Missing Puerto Rico?
- Resort with a past.
- Sao Paulo's counterculture.
- An ode to the sea.
- Staking out survival for Sonoran pronghorns: racing against extinction, the fastest land mammal in North America is the focus of new recovery efforts on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Into the light of the night sky: scientists at a research center near Fairbanks, Alaska, are shooting rockets into the aurora borealis to measure the phenomenon's effect on telecommunications and other activities.
- En route to the real Robinson Crusoe: a simple story that started on Chile's Juan Fernandez archipelago spawned a legend that has inspired numerous books and films over centuries and across oceans.
- Reality in the raw: with an eye for detail and emotion, Argentine photographer Marcos Zimmermann captures often overlooked historical and physical landscapes of his native country.
- Behind bountiful banners: pursuing a lifelong passion, Whitney Smith has documented the origins and significance of hundreds of flags of the hemisphere.
- Wry modernist of Brazil's past: often considered the father of his country's literature, Machado de Assis created humorous and dark works of implicit social criticism, free of the conventions of his nineteenth-century Rio.
- Anniversary of a Charter.
- Addressing small states' concerns.
- Support for Haiti.
- At the service of children.
- Popular passions, variations, and tangos.
- Fables of families and cities.
- The opera.