Americas (English Edition)

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Articles in November 2002 issue of Americas (English Edition)

• 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.
  by Alex Gillis
• Behind bountiful banners: pursuing a lifelong passion, Whitney Smith has documented the origins and significance of hundreds of flags of the hemisphere.
  by Caleb Bach
• 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.
  by David A. Taylor
• 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.
  by Ben Ikenson
• Resort with a past. (Ojo!).
  by Ian Stalker
• 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.
  by Louis Werner
• At the service of children. (Inter-American System).
  by Ulises Pioli
• Support for Haiti. (OAS)
  by Janelle Conaway
• Popular passions, variations, and tangos. (Music Notes)
  by Mark Holston
• Addressing small states' concerns. (OAS)
  by Janelle Conaway
• From the editor.
  by James Patrick Kiernan
• Close relations. (Upfront)
  by Beatriz Alem-Walker
• 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.
  by Joshua Goodman
• Anniversary of a Charter. (OAS).
  by Janelle Conaway
• Fables of families and cities
  by Barbara Mujica
• The opera. (Latitudes)
  by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
• An ode to the sea. (Ojo!).
  by Iyna Bort Caruso
• Sao Paulo's counterculture. (Ojo!).
  by Mark Holston