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Mystery of the Medicine Wheels { Probing the Mystery of the Medicine Wheels}
Astronomer John A. Eddy believes early Plains Indians used huge spoked circles of stones to keep track of sun, stars, and seasons. Photographs by Thomas E. Hooper.
Inside Cuba Today
From three months of unrestricted travel and countless interviews – – including one with Fidel Castro himself – – photojournalist Fred Ward reports on everyday life in the only Communist nation in the Western Hemisphere.
An Eye for an Eye: Pakistan’s Wild Frontier
Gunfire and eye- for- an- eye justice still rule tribal enclaves of a border province where the Khyber Pass carries scars of invasion and violence. Mike W. Edwards and J. Bruce Baumann roam Kipling country.
Mars: Our First Close Look { Mars As Viking Sees It}
A red landscape dramatically shaped by volcano, wind, and water is confirmed by the electronic eyes and arms of NASA spacecraft far from home.
Mars: Our First Close Look { The Search for Life; Sifting for Life in the Sands of Mars}
Key experiments by the two Viking landers focus on the basic, still unresolved question. Science writer Rick Gore looks at preliminary results.
Puget Sound, Sea Gate of the Northwest { Sea Gate of the Pacific Northwest, Puget Sound; Puget Sound, Sea Gate of the Pacific Northwest}
At the sea gate of the nation’s Northwest, William Graves and David Allen Harvey find outdoor- oriented cities, unspoiled shores, and a growing concern for tomorrow.
The Gentle Yamis of Orchid Island
Wide ocean and a speck of land frame the world of an ancient people of the western Pacific. A picture story by Chang Shuhua.

From the Bahamas to Belize: Probing the Deep Reefs’ Hidden Realm
The outer edges of clifflike Atlantic reefs from the Bahamas to Belize harbor a fairyland of interrelated creatures.
Israel- -The Seventh Day
Since the Six- Day War of 1967, no rest or peace has come to Israel, where her own people are divided between Western and Oriental Jew, Orthodox tradition and secular practices.
Apollo 16 Brings Us Visions From Space
The mission returns with startling views of Earth, enormous amounts of data, and new questions about the universe.
The Navajos
Neglected and poverty- stricken, the largest Indian nation in the U. S. seeks to control its destiny on a reservation reaping a windfall from mineral leases.
Who Were the Mound Builders ?
Early American Indians built towns, raised mounds that rivaled Mexico’s pyramids, and traded along routes from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast.
Those Popular Pandas { What’s Black and White and Loved All Over? }
The director of the National Zoo in Washington, D. C. , describes the giant panda pair presented to the U. S. by China following President Richard M. Nixon’s historic visit.

Studying Wildlife by Satellite
In a spin- off of the space program, biologists equip a Yellowstone bear with a radio- transmitter collar and temperature probe and monitor the animal within its den from space.
California’s San Andreas Fault
Two great slabs of Earth’s crust collide along a 700- mile fault system that bisects California, causing sometimes fatal earthquakes.
This Changing Earth
Volcanoes erupt, earthquakes shudder and, new land forms – – all the result of the movements of Earth’s crust.
Leakey, Louis S. B. : The Leakey Tradition Lives On { The Leakey Tradition Lives On}
The Society’s President pays tribute to the late scientist whose fossil finds rewrote the prehistory of man in Africa.
A Scientist Visits Some of the World’s Oldest People { Search for the Oldest People; Every Day Is a Gift When You Are Over 100 }
A professor at Harvard University Medical School searches for the secrets of old age in three places where longevity is commonplace: Vilcabamba, Abkhazia, and Hunza.
Ethiopia’s Artful Weavers
Former farmers, the Dorze – – a minority of 20, 000 in a nation of 25 million – – turn a traditional craft into a commercial enterprise.
Alaskan Family Robinson
A young couple and their two children take to the bush to construct cabins, harvest local game and berries, and relish the wilderness experience.
High, Wild World of the Vicun?a
A cousin of the camel, the graceful vicuna of the Andes has suffered from man’s desire for its silky wool coat. Recent land preserves and domestication efforts have halted the animal’s decline.