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- The Brothers Grimm – Snow White, Rumplestiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood: The fairy-tale characters that have entered world culture came alive on paper in the early 1800s when Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected oral tales in their German homeland. By Thomas O’Neill, Photographs by Gerd Ludwig

- Cheetahs—Ghosts of the Grasslands – Hunted by ranchers, attacked by lions, and deprived of much of their African and Asian habitat, cheetahs in the wild number perhaps 12,000. Can conservationists move quickly enough to protect the world’s fastest animal? By Richard Conniff, Photographs by Chris Johns

- Florida Keys: Paradise With Attitude – Paying the price of popularity, this South Florida island chain faces escalating real estate costs and degradation of the only living barrier reef in the continental U.S. But that hasn’t stopped the party. By Frank Deford, Photographs by Bob Sacha

- Ancient Greece – Echoes of Homer’s epic poem the Iliad emerge from Bronze Age sites around the Aegean Sea in the first of three articles about this legendary civilization. By Caroline Alexander, Photographs by James L Stanfield Double Map Supplement: Ancient Greece

- Geographic Century – As the Society pushed the technological boundaries of photography, its staid research journal was transformed by arresting images of our world. By William L Allen

- Survey 2000 More than 80,000 people for 178 countries and territories logged on to National Geographic’s website to take our sociological survey. What they had to say may surprise you.