Witness the intricate partnership between humans and oysters through photographs and text by David Doubilet. This victory by an upstart from across the Atlantic marked the first defeat of a British vessel by a U.S. warship and earned respect for the nation's young navy . Luis Marden follows the most recent restoration of this piece of American history . Setting her under sail once again will reveal that strength and symbolize the living nature of the document for which she is named. Apart from a propensity to pounce on prey, cats' aloof elegance has long made them the choice for animal companionship .
Feline magic works even behind bars .
The Human-Cat Connection Dogs may be our best friends, but cats are closer to our genetic kin . If you rearranged only a few cat chromosomes, you could convert the gene order into a human pattern. To do that for a dog or mouse would require about a hundred chromosome flips. The U.S. bases, with their barbed wire and noise pollution , cover a fifth of Okinawa's main island. Okinawans have grown increasingly restive over both the size of the U.S. presence and what they see as Tokyo's halfhearted efforts to redistribute it more equitably throughout the country.