ANALYSIS
Rationing Health Care
James L. Napier, Jr.
Crisis in the Franc Zone
L. Gray Cowan
Productivity: America Inc. versus Japan and Germany
Rich Lowry
New Challenges for Jordan
Lawrence Tal

COMMENTARY
Is Death a Constitutional Right?: The Sanctity of Life
Brian Young
Family Law: They're Not All 'Deadbeat Dads'
Jenifer Rachel
Is Death a Constitutional Right?: The Virtue of Choice
Jack Lessenberry

MEDIA IN REVIEW
The New News Consumer
Lisa Calhoun

WORLD VIEWS
Clinton in Europe

 

GARDENS
Basil Basics
Walter Chandoha

TRAVEL
Neither Asia nor Minor
Herb Greer

FEATURED BOOK: Nathan McCall''s Makes Me Wanna Holler
Introduction
Editor

The Real Deal
John McCluskey, Jr.

The Content of Our Soul
Michael Marshall

REVIEWS
An Urban Lament
Edward S. Shapiro
GOING OUT
David Nasaw

Gourmet Pastiche
Robert F. Geary
HOTEL PASTIS
Peter Mayle

Tradition Jettisoned
Robert L. Spaeth
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, MICHELANGELO?
Thomas Day

Footprints on the Sands of Mars
Jack Ketch
RED MARS
Kim Stanley Robinson
GREEN MARS
Kim Stanley Robinson

Adapt or Perish
Bruce Allen
THE GREEN KNIGHT
Iris Murdoch

Review: Defending the Central Tradition
Peter Widulski
MAKING MEN MORAL
Robert P. George

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Empire of the Mind
Gerald Early
W.E.B. DU BOIS
David Levering Lewis

CRAFT & DESIGN
Tai Textiles: Threads of Meaning
Patricia Malarcher

DANCE
Kirov Tradition Comes to America: Washington's Kirov Academy
Stephen Henkin

FILM
Peter Weir: A View From the Apocalypse
John C. Tibbetts

MUSIC
Zap Mama Provides One Answer To What Is World Music?
William Ruhlmann

PHOTOGRAPHY
The Art of Control: The Photography of Richard Avedon
Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto

IMPACTS
Piezoelectric Crystals: Twitches and Sparks
Lawrence H. Berlow

NATURE WALK
At Home in the Dark
Branley Allan Branson

SCIENCE ESSAY
Rethinking the American Lawn
F. Herbert Bormann

FOLK WISDOM
Fatal Knowledge: Creation Myths of the Middle East: Part Three
Ewa Wasilewska

HERITAGE
Reaching for Harmony: Florida's Asian Arts Festival
Duba Desowitz-Leibell

PEOPLES
Nectar of the Moon: Worshiping Khandoba in Jejuri, India
Rajesh Vora
Hillside Millions: Living Beyond Security in Caracas
Ben Barber