Description
Contents: As Mono Lake shrinks, its waters help slake Los Angeles’ thirst – but a unique ecosystem is threatened., Morgan Library’s new slide program makes rare medieval manuscript paintings available to everyone., Biology turns out to be a key to the bonding of mothers and their infants, who come equipped with an amazing array of “Social Skills”., Paul MacCready, whose plane flew the English Channel under human power, is taking to the skies with solar energy., Under the baton of Mastislav Tostropovich, the National Symphony Orchestra aims for the heights., Atlanta’s vast new Hartsfield International Airport harmonizes are with innovative technology., Artist Harry White makes vivid pictures out of petals in a delicate art form called “fleurage”., An Army corps of scientists and engineers probes ice floes and permafrost in an unusual “cold lab”., American porcelain shows itself as witty, pretty, vital and exotic in a new show at the Renwick Gallery., Colin Fletcher, who wrote the “backpacker’s bible,” spent a decade tracking down a mystery cave man.
Issue: February 1981
Condition: Very Good