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National Geographic March 1984

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The Laser: A Splendid Light { The Laser: A Splendid Light For Man’s Use; Lasers- – A Splendid Light }
Dazzling in its uses, the laser lights taps the awesome power of light for technologies from medicine to the military. Allen A. Boraiko and Charles O’ Rear illuminate its bright promise.
Canada’s Not- So- Wild West { Calgary: Canada’s Not- So- Wild West}
Once a tough little cow town, Calgary is now the flamboyant oil capital of Canada. David Boyer and photographer Ottmar Bierwagen chronicle its rough- and- tumble ride on fortune’s wheel.
China’s Remote Peoples { Peoples of China’s Far Provinces}
They are the other Chinese – – nomads, farmers, monks, mountain tribesmen – – almost 70 million people in a nation exceeding a billion. Journalist Wong How- Man travels 11, 000 miles to visit China’s little- known national minorities.
They’ re Killing Off the Rhino
From Africa to the Far East, this powerful but vulnerable behemoth is rapidly disappearing. Conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin and photographer Jim Brandenburg track the rhino from its shrinking habitat to far- flung marketplaces that spur its demise.
The Wonder of Holography
Interacting streams of laser light create three- dimensional images that intrigue artists, foil counterfeiters, and pinpoint industrial flaws. Dr. H. John Caulfield reports, with photographs by Charles O’ Rear.

National Geographic September 1985

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Sichuan: China Changes Course { Sichuan: Where China Changes Course}
Traveling through China’s most populous province, Ross Terrill and photographer Cary Wolinsky discover a new spirit of individualism and private enterprise flourishing.
Home to Kansas
Oceans of wheat share prominence with aviation, mental health clinics, and grass- roots politics, native son Cliff Tarpy reports. With photographs by Cotton Coulson.
Sailing in Jason’s Wake { Jason’s Voyage: In Search of the Golden Fleece}
Adventurer Tim Severin and his crew of 20th- century Argonauts said in the wake of the mythical navigator on his grand quest. Photographs by John Egan and Seth Mortimer.
Eritrea in Rebellion { Eritrea: Region in Rebellion}
In northern Ethiopia, Marxists fight Marxists in a bloody war whose only winners are famine and disease. Photojournalist Anthony Suau reports on the suffering.
Alexander von Humboldt, Geographic Pioneer { Humboldt’s Way: Pioneer of Modern Geography}
A man of unrivaled curiosity, Alexander von Humboldt explored Spanish America and wrote towering 19th- century scientific works. Loren McIntyre follows the German baron’s New World travels from Orinoco jungles to meetings with President Thomas Jefferson

National Geographic March 1986

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Secrets of the Giant Panda { Secrets of the Wild Panda}
Survivors in an ever diminishing habitat, China’s living national treasures need protection. Zoologist George B. Schaller reports on an international project to save them.
Narwhals, Arctic Unicorns { Narwhals Duel in Arctic Seas; Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic Seas}
Flip Nicklin captures photographs of bizarre duels among these little- known denizens of northern seas, being studied by biologists John and Deborah Ford.
Britain’s Pennine Way { On Britain’s Pennine Way; Walking Britain’s Pennine Way; To Scotland Afoot Along the Pennine Way}
David Yeadon walks the 270- mile trail from central England into Scotland. Photographs by Annie Griffiths.
Sam Houston, a Life Larger Than Legend { Sam Houston: A Man Too Big for Texas}
A statesman, soldier, and frontiersman, the champion of Texas independence was a giant of his age, reports Bart McDowell, a son of the Lone Star State. With photographs by Charles O’ Rear and a double supplement map – – The Making of America: Texas.
Morocco’s Holy City of Fez { Morocco’s Ancient City of Fez}
A medieval time capsule, the Islamic center lives in the past while fighting an exodus to its nearby modern counterpart. By Harvey Arden, with photographs by Bruno Barbey.
Tenn- Tom Waterway: Bounty or Boondoggle? { Tenn- Tom’s Troubled Waters; The Tennessee- Tombigbee Waterway: Bounty or Boondoggle? }
Is the new barge route linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers another pork barrel, or will the two- billion- dollar project boost the South? Carolyn Bennett Patterson and photographer Sandy Felsenthal report.

National Geographic July 1980

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The Bulgarians: People to Match a Rugged Land { The Bulgarians}
Boyd Gibbons frames a portrait of spirit, industry, and a will to make do in a socialist system that offers few luxuries and squelches criticism. Photographs by James L. Stanfield.
Giant Otters, a Vanishing Breed { Giant Otters in Peril; Giant Otters: Big Water Dogs in Peril}
In the jungles of Suriname, Nicole Duplaix studies South America’s endangered big water dogs. Photographs by Bates Littlehales.
Bulgaria’s Ancient Treasures { Ancient Bulgaria’s Golden Treasures}
A trove of copper and gold artifacts supports author Colin Renfrew’s theory that metallurgy evolved in Europe independent of Near East influences. Photographs by James L. Stanfield; paintings by Jean- Leon Huens.
Return to Uganda
With her Canadian husband, a Ugandan woman goes home after seven years, to find that her nation’s sorrows did not end with the fall of Idi Amin. By Jerry and Sarah Kambites, with photographs by Sarah Leen.
China’s Born- again Giant { Shanghai: Muscle and Smoke Born- Again Giant; Shanghai: China’s Born- again Giant}
Mike Edwards finds signs of stabilization in Shanghai, a city that has known both the heights of progress and the depths of chaos. With photographs by Bruce Dale, plus a double supplement map of China and its peoples.
A Buckaroo Stew of Fact and Legend: The Pony Express { Grit and Glory: The Pony Express; Pony Express, Legend and Fact; The Pony Express}
Indians and the elements warred against those young couriers of 1860- 61 who galloped into legend. Rowe Findley and photographer Craig Aurness retrace the historic route.

National Geographic May 1981

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Eskimo and Viking Finds in the Arctic { Eskimo and Viking Finds in the High Arctic: Ellesmere Island}
On Ellesmere Island, far north in Canada, archeologist Peter Schledermann finds dramatic evidence of early inhabitants and visitors – – among them, possibly, Norsemen. Photographs by Sisse Brimberg.
Pakistan Under Pressure
Wedged between Iran, Soviet- occupied Afghanistan, China, and India, a military- ruled nation of diverse peoples and harsh Islamic law tries to walk a middle road and emerge an Asiatic power on its own. By William S. Ellis and James L Stanfield.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef { Australia’s Coral Kingdom; Paradise Beneath the Sea}
Veterans of more than 20 years of diving on the Barrier Reef, the Taylors capture in words and glowing color this coral kingdom of the Pacific.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef { A New Marine Park. .. ; A Marine Park Is Born}
Australia’s gift to the world, a huge ocean preserve newly created on the Great Barrier Reef is described by marine biologist Soames Summerhays and photographed by Ron and Valerie Taylor.
A Jawbreaker for Sharks
Valerie Taylor dares to test an experimental chain- mail diving suit against shark attack.
America’s Forgotten Crops { New Harvests for Forgotten Crops; Rediscovering America’s Forgotten Crops}
Little- known plants long used by Indians hold new promise for food and industry, reports chemist Noel D. Vietmeyer. Photographs by Burgess Blevins, paintings by Paul M. Breeden.
Iowa, America’s Middle Earth
The deep- soil heartland of the nation’s farming empire has far more to offer than tall corn, Harvey Arden and Craig Aurness discover.

National Geographic June 1981

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Two American Teachers in China { Two U. S. Teachers in China; Two Years Teaching in China; Letter From Kunming: Two American Teachers in China}
Elizabeth B. Booz and her son Paddy, invited in 1978 to teach English at Yunnan University in Kunming, describe the revitalization of Chinese education since the fall of the Gang of Four.
San Francisco Bay- -Its Beauty and Battles { The Beauty and the Battles of San Francisco Bay}
Nature carved out a great estuary where waters of the Sierra Nevada and the Pacific meet. Cliff Tarpy and James A. Sugar reveal how man’s cities and industries have changed the golden gateway.
Down the Ancient Appian Way
Like the Roman poet Horace, James Cerruti traverses – – and tweaks – – the highway of saints and Caesars. Photographed by O. Louis Mazzatenta.
American Red Cross: A Century Old { The American Red Cross: A Century of Service}
Founded by Clara Barton in 1881, it is now the nation’s largest grass- roots volunteer effort. Louise Levathes and Annie Griffiths show what can be done with nearly 1. 5 million helpers.
Somalia’s Hour of Need { Illustrations text}
War, want, and a massive flood of refugees beset this strategic nation on Africa’s Horn, home of a proud nomadic people. Robert Paul Jordan and Larry Kohl report, with photographs by Michael A. Yamashita and Kevin Fleming.
Saving the Philippine Eagle
Ornithologist Robert S. Kennedy assesses the chances for one of the world’s largest and rarest birds of prey. Photographs by Alan R. Degen, Neil L. Rettig, and Wolfgang A. Salb.