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COPYRIGHT 2002 Smithsonian Institution
For ten days this summer, the great geographical and cultural distance that lies between the heart of Europe and the far reaches of Asia will be reduced to the length of a leisurely afternoon stroll along the National Mall. For the first time in its 36-year history, the Smithsonian's annual outdoor Folklife Festival will have a single--and remarkably ambitious--theme: the Silk Road (see "Yo-Yo Ma's Other Passion," page 82). The name denotes the network of trade routes, over both land and sea, along which merchants and travelers began in the first millennium b.c. to move up, down and...
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