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