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...critical shape and may die within the next 10 to 20 years. And an additional 30% are coming under such sustained attack that they may perish by the year 2050. "I used to be reluctant to say the sky was falling," says paleobiologist Jeremy Jackson of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute near Panama City, Panama. "I'm not anymore. Today when I go for a swim on a reef in Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WRECKING THE REEFS | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said that during an eclipse the moon disappears as far as the naked...

Author: By Shannon A. Carty, | Title: Total Lunar Eclipse Draws Admiring Crowds | 9/27/1996 | See Source »

When I was offered an internship at the Smithsonian this summer, I was ecstatic...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: The Allure of the Countryside | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

During the summer, the grass turns brown, trampled by tourist crowds, the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folk-life and the sun. And the central panel, absent of trees, is often nothing but hazy...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: The Allure of the Countryside | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...grandmother, too, was ecstatic when I accepted the Smithsonian internship...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: The Allure of the Countryside | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

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