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...telescopes that could eventually occupy Emerald Peak, the top of the 10,720-foot Mt. Graham 75 miles northeast of Tucson, is designed by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...starts this week with a look at adaptation and survival in the harsh beauty of the Great Plains region. The idea for the story came to him during a visit to Miles City, Mont., this summer, when he decided to seek out the lonely spot where, in 1886, the Smithsonian's William Hornaday slaughtered 25 bison for an exhibit at Washington's National Museum of Natural History. Recalls Sidey: "I found the site and stood filled with a sense of being in a primeval time and place. I understood what Montanans mean when they speak of the Big Sky country...
...even more: a chance to recapture a bit of the original American heart, something brave and wild. Coffman, who is writing a novel about the return of the buffalo -- the fulfillment of a prayer in an old Indian song -- even tracked down the site near Jordan, Mont., where the Smithsonian's William Hornaday in 1886 found the last of the wild bison. He killed 25 of them, took skins and skeletons back East to mount. Those shaggy monsters roamed the National Museum of Natural History along Washington's Mall for almost 75 years...
...still home to animals, such as the Hawaiian hawk and the happy-face spider, which are found only in the islands, as well as to unique medicinal plants. Says Henry Auwae, a practitioner of herbal medicine who traveled to Washington last year to share his knowledge with the Smithsonian Institution: "Wao Kele produces these plants with a quality and potency I have found nowhere else...
...permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution reveals the fits and starts in the evolution of the electronic machines that have reshaped modern life...