Puerto Rican Rainbow

Girls' formal dresses dry in early-morning sunshine near the inland Puerto Rican town of Utuado.

Photograph by Amy Toensing
From "Final Edit,"  National Geographic magazine, March 2003

Incubators of Biodiversity

Saltwater lakes in the Micronesian island nation of Palau may be the breeding ground of new species.

Photograph by Tim Laman
From "Hotspot: Islands of the Pacific," National Geographic magazine, March 2003

To Serve Man

Society records don't reveal whether this Fiji Islands cannibal fork, depicted in an archival photograph acquired in 1917, was the real McCoy or a decoy. (In the latter case, it would have been fabricated to sate tourist demand for paraphernalia related to cannibalism.)

Photograph by Robert A. Bachmann
From  "Flashback," National Geographic magazine, March 2003