index of publications 1995 - Pierce Law Center IP Mall
index of publications 1995 - Pierce Law Center IP Mall
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also perform globe-spanning science experiments:<br />
Youngsters in Kansas , Peru , and Russia<br />
compared the acidit y <strong>of</strong> their rain water. This<br />
innov ative classroom geography education program<br />
for fourth throug h sixth graders was made<br />
possible by many gifts,<br />
large and small .<br />
As it has since 1888,<br />
NATIONALGEOGRAPlliC<br />
magazine continues to bring<br />
the world to its membersnow<br />
numbering more than<br />
nine million. A <strong>1995</strong> article<br />
that captured the magazine'<br />
s long fascin ation with<br />
science, history, and art<br />
appeared in February: the<br />
computer-aided recon struction<br />
<strong>of</strong> centuries-old Maya murals at Bonampak,<br />
Mexico. Working from photographs <strong>of</strong> the<br />
cleaned murals (top left), artists and experts<br />
combined infrared images, line art, and a computer<br />
program to re-creat e the mural s' original<br />
appearance (top right).<br />
The famil y <strong>of</strong> NATIONAL GEOGRAPlliC members<br />
grew in a remarkable new direction in <strong>1995</strong><br />
with the launchin g <strong>of</strong> our first-ever foreignlanguage<br />
edition , in Iapan. Its reception has<br />
been phenomenal. Original project ions were for<br />
88,000 membe rs the first year; the actual number<br />
topped 160,000 .<br />
TRAVELERand WORLD also celebrated landmark<br />
years: WORLD published its 20th anniversary<br />
edition , and for the fourth consecutive year<br />
TRAVELERwon the Folio: Editorial Excellence<br />
Award for best travel magazine. And in September<br />
WORLD hosted the first Kids' Hall <strong>of</strong><br />
Fame Awards, cosponsored with Pizza Hut. Six<br />
young people were honored at our Washington,<br />
D.C., headquarters. Among them was Aaron<br />
Gordon (left) , a l3 -year-old from Miami ,<br />
Florida, who for five years has championed the<br />
installati on <strong>of</strong> seat belts in school buses.<br />
Television is playing a large r role in the<br />
Society's mission. In <strong>1995</strong>, for the first time,<br />
National Geographic Television programs<br />
appeared on public , commercial, and cable TV.<br />
At the Emm y Awards ceremony in <strong>1995</strong>, Society<br />
programs took 11Emmys, the most <strong>of</strong>any documentary<br />
producer.<br />
The art <strong>of</strong> radio documentary is enjo ying a<br />
renai ssance thank s in part to our series "Radio<br />
Expeditions," coproduced with National Public<br />
Radio and underwritten by the Teresa and H.<br />
John Heinz ill Fund <strong>of</strong>the Heinz Family Foundation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Pittsburgh.<br />
From the time we pioneered the use <strong>of</strong> color<br />
film for our magazine , the Society has been on<br />
the cutting edge <strong>of</strong>new inform ation technology.<br />
That tradition con tinues as we prepar e to launch<br />
a National Geographic home page on the Internet.<br />
Work on the page progressed throughout<br />
<strong>1995</strong>, with an early 1996 on-line target date.<br />
The Societ y's traditi on <strong>of</strong> personali zed service<br />
continues as well. Our 55,000-titie library at<br />
headquarters served staff, Society members , and<br />
librarie s worldwide in <strong>1995</strong>, while our Research<br />
Correspondence Division answered some 45,000<br />
inquiries from the publi c.<br />
As you use this Index , I hope you'll recall<br />
some <strong>of</strong> the Society's highlights <strong>of</strong> the past year.<br />
But also know it reflects continued commitment<br />
to our mission-the incre ase and diffu sion <strong>of</strong><br />
geographic knowledge.<br />
PRESIDENTAND CHAIRMANOF TIlE BOARD<br />
National Geographic