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Contents: The Library of Congress can’t hold all of Man’s knowledge – but it tries, as it acquires a new $160-million annex, Scientist helps stir new movement for a “animal rights’ that works for more humane conditions and farms and in labs., Masterworks of China’s Bronze Age, one of the richest archaeological exhibitions every assembled, begin U.S. tour., Working at astonishing levels of accuracy, physicists prepare to test Einstein’s general relativity theory., Over a span of 30 years, an American family records the disappearing culture of the Kalahari Bushmen., Eclipse watchers chase moon’s shadow across the skies, The Hirshhorn mounts a celebratory retrospective surveying the art of Joan Miro, who is still lively at 87., Sri Lanka moves prized elephants out of harm’s way in an effort to find a balance between farms and wildlife., Nation’s Attic dusts off objects for Smithsonian show., Biologist Lewis Thomas speculates on Mysteries of nature, urging us to a more active sense of “endless wonderment”.
Issue: April 1980
Condition: Very Good