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K. E. Drexler Mightier Machines from Tiny Atoms May Someday Grow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--154
Helen Dudar In Chicago, ``Sleeping Beauty'' is wide awake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 S. Dillon Ripley On the long, long trail of the rail . . 38 Pico Iyer Curiously constant Korea . . . . . . . . 46 Dora Jane Hamblin Birth of the salesman . . . . . . . . . 62 Thomas A. Bass Waging war in `Bug City,' Kenya . . . . 78 Jed Kirschbaum Was Devil's Island the worst of the worst? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Diane Raines Ward Saffron: versatile spice, ludicrous price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Olmstead Hill Roto Rooster's day in court . . . . . . 113
Edwards Park Where Arctic cultures intersect . . . . 42 Israel Shenker ``Of spontaneity, I know nothing'' . . . 58 Richard Conniff Mice agree: East or West, home is best 72 Doug Stewart Cutting rock around the clock . . . . . 86 Douglas Faulkner Airborne in the USA . . . . . . . . . . 100 Donald Dale Jackson Creative, cantankerous Henry Mercer . . 110 Dougal Dixon Sending in the kloons\ldots . . . . . . 124
Anonymous The sculptor who's bugging us . . . . . 117
Jake Page Toward a new window on Smithsonian's world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Jim Doherty For born-again barns, new leases on old lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 William H. Jordan, Jr. From California, dinosaurs by design . . 46 Evelyn C. White Paul Stewart's romance with the West . . 58 Jeanne McDermott She's the maverick of the microcosmos 72 Richard Conniff `It's like driving your car off a cliff' 82 Fred Bavendam Naked came the sea slug . . . . . . . . 94 Michael Kernan A family legacy grows in Baltimore . . . 102 Robert Wernick The officer who was no gentleman . . . . 114
Richard Conniff Yellowstone's fires are out but the issues burn on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Richard J. Margolis Checkup for the nation's rural hospitals 52 Constance A. Bond Wang Yani, born to paint . . . . . . . . 70 James Trefil Craters, the celestial calling cards . . 80 Norman Schreiber Surveying the South, a panorama-in-print 163 Robert Wernick Montesquieu: architect of American liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Anonymous From and for the American Indian, a cultural bounty . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Seth Shulman Nuclear power: the dilemma of decommissioning . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Donald Dale Jackson Those ever-graceful, never-gracious gulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Joe Sherman Frederic Church and his great Great Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Jake Page and Carl Hoffman Switzerland's jackknife of all trades 106 Stanley Meisler Burgeoning Glasgow goes back to the future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Ogden Tanner Cultivating a bent for bonsai: Yankee devotees of ``tray planting'' use native trees and a freer style to give Asian art a new twist . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Doug Stewart Watching `everything that happens in the world' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Roger G. Kennedy Architecture in the image of Athens . . 170 Errol T. Louis A new jazz grows in Brooklyn\ldotswhere young musicians with computers, synthesizers and soul are introducing a modern musical language . . . . . . . . 176 Jack Fincher Turning bad fingerprints into good clues: Lasers and chemicals have revolutionized the use of prints in criminology --- and maybe in medicine, too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201