1/1994 Macaws

New Eyes on the Universe
By Bradford A. Smith
Photographs by
Roger H. Ressmeyer
With revolutionary telescopes and a fleet of spaceborne instruments, scientists are seeing farther, and more clearly, into the universe. Now they struggle to make sense of this extraordinary information.
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Great Flood of '93
By Alan MairsonWhen water rampaged through the upper Mississippi River basin last summer, it left both broken levees and broken hearts, stirring
^    up a century-old debate on U. S.
•    flood-control policy.
Riding Out the Worst of Times
By Bill Bryson Photographs by Jodi CobbA native son returns to flood-ravaged Des Moines, Iowa, and finds its virtues of grit, good humor, and neighborly generosity holding fast.
Kyushu
By Tracy Dahlby
Photographs by
Michael S. Yamashita Japan's southernmost main island sheds its backwater image as it lures research labs and high-tech factories—and claims its share of the
Pacific Rim boom.

Macaws: Winged Rainbows
By Charles A. Munn Photographs by Frans Lanting
Deep in the Peruvian Amazon these largest of parrots gather to eat riverbank clay. Why they do so is one of the many questions explored in this first detailed study of macaws in the wild.
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