Another new site that celebrates the spirit of exploration is National Geographic Online (http://www.nationalgeographic.com), the electronic version of the venerable magazine.

"Christmas Party" appeared in the final issue of Collier's, a venerable magazine founded in 1888.

Sustaining the vision of a venerable little magazine will become an afterthought.

With his Thatcherite faith in the free market, he seemed, to many old-time New Republic readers, unfaithful to the liberal traditions of the venerable magazine.

And some of the whimsical writing showed influences of another venerable magazine, Punch.

Barron's, the venerable financial magazine, has an unusual problem.

Is this venerable magazine becoming the operatic equivalent of a glossy monthly?

Classic conservatism, says National Review, the venerable conservative magazine, which in its latest issue offers a list of the "top 50 conservative rock songs of all time."

The Economist, founded in 1843, is of course not the only venerable magazine bearing a name that may puzzle contemporary readers.

William Shawn, the magazine's famously retiring editor, is represented as a big-mouthed, gun-toting tough, and his venerable magazine undergoes a Mafia takeover.