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JOHN MEYER, FIRST GOT HOOKED on fish as a boy wading the streams of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Today, when the National Park Service biologist speaks, it's in a slow current [...]

The article examines the history of art in Yosemite National Park in the state of California. Particular focus is given to 19th and 20th-century based artists that were impacted by the park, including Chiura Obata, George Fiske and William Hahn. The exhibition "Yosemite: A Storied Landscape," at the California Historical Society in San Francisco, California, through January 15, 2015.

Sally Mann is best known for 'Immediate Family,' controversial photographs of her children in their rural home. There, the children skinny-dip in a green river, then sun and paint themselves [...]

Profiles frog biologist Tyrone Hayes whose experiments have linked atrazine to deformed sex organs in frogs. Significance of the experiments of Hayes on frogs to the agricultural product of the Swiss agrichemical company Syngenta; Effect of atrazine on frogs and on the health conditions of humans; Topics of the lectures given by Hayes to sanitation managers, water quality specialists, herpetologists and integrated pest managers in the U.S.; Educational background of Hayes.

Presents the views of interviewers of `Mother Jones' magazine on world events since the periodical's inception in 1976 to 1995. Inequality of wealth; Need to find a new American history; Political will of the United States privileged classes.

Focuses on photographer Sally Mann's collection of photographs called `Immediate Family' which shows her children in their rural home. Portrayal of a mother's love-struggle with her children; Mann's exhibition and book `Still Time' adapted from `Immediate Family.'