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DETROIT:
FUELING THE IMAGINATION
HOW TO BUILD A
BETTER BEE
MAY 2015
UNDERSTANDING
ONE OF THE SMARTEST
CREATURES ON EARTH
THINKING
LIKE A
DOLPHIN
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MAY 2015
VOL. 227 • NO. 5
In Laos, critics of a planned hydro-
electric dam say it will block sh
migration on the Mekong River,
where this sherman plies his trade.
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Harnessing the Mekong
By Michelle Nijhuis
Running for more than 2,600 miles, the Mekong River produces fish when it flows
free and clean electricity when it’s dammed. Therein lies Southeast Asia’s dilemma.
Photographs by David Guttenfelder
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It’s Time for a Conversation
When one of Earth’s smartest
creatures vocalizes, it fuels a
heated debate among scientists:
Are dolphins actually speaking a
complex language?
By Joshua Foer
Photographs by Brian Skerry
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Taking Back Detroit
With its bankruptcy in the
rearview mirror, the Motor City is
attracting investors, innovators,
and adventurous would-be fixers.
By Susan Ager
Photographs by Wayne Lawrence
Quest for a Superbee
Honeybees top the list of insect
pollinators on which one-third
of food crops depend. Can we
breed a hardier bee?
By Charles C. Mann
Photographs by Anand Varma
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Proof
|
Walking the Way
A pilgrimage through France and Spain is “an
ancient tradition thriving in a modern world.”
Story and Photographs by Michael George
On the Cover
Scientists working with bottlenose dolphins (this one
lives at a Vallejo, California, animal park) are looking for a link between
the animals’ many vocalizations and their behaviors.
Photo by Brian Skerry
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FROM THE EDITOR
Detroit
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Going Home
I’m crisscrossing a careworn street on Detroit’s west side, looking at the
house where my mother lived in the 1930s. I walk up driveways, down side-
walks, peer around bushes. A neighbor, understandably curious, bounds over.
“I’m the king of Glendale,” Keith Harris says. Harris loves Glendale
Street—so much so that he’s purchased nine properties for $42,000. That
sum got him six houses in varying states of repair and three empty lots.
“I’m not done yet,” he says. “I’m going to buy more and rent them.”
I’m glad to hear this. Glendale could use more investment. So
could Tuxedo Street, a few blocks away, where my father grew
up. So could Detroit.
I’ve seen all the ruin-porn photos. Now I’ve come to
see for myself what’s happened to what was America’s
fth largest city circa 1950. Then there were more
than 1.8 million residents; now there are fewer
than 700,000.
This is where my family settled after immigrating
to the United States in the 1920s, moving into neigh-
borhoods lled with people just like them.
The handwritten 1940 census page for Tuxedo
Street literally illustrates the story: It shows a long
list of Jewish names (Goldberg, Cohen, Barsky,
Leventen) and the places from which Jews ed
(Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Russia, Russia).
The neighborhood was so insular that when my
American-born mother went to kindergarten, she
couldn’t speak English, only Yiddish.
Those families don’t live here anymore. They are
gone, along with the elm trees that once shaded these
streets. The improbably named Bowl-O-Drome is now
a CVS. Some houses have become empty lots. Others,
burned-out hulks. But some are tidy symbols of survival and
pride. Keith Harris owns one of those homes. “We have clean-
up-the-block day,” he tells me. “We are trying to make it better.”
Visitors like me walk these streets all the time, he says. “Some people
came and cried like babies.” Maybe they shouldn’t have. Though much is
gone and more has changed, there are seeds of hope across the city, as writer
Susan Ager and photographer Wayne Lawrence discovered while docu-
menting the diversity of the new Detroit for this issue.
Harris has planted some of those seeds. “We invest in this block,” he says,
“because we want to stay.”
In 1932 at age five,
Jeannette Goldberg—
the editor’s mother—
posed with her own
mother, grandmother,
and great-grand-
mother in Detroit.
Susan Goldberg,
Editor in Chief
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