SPECIAL REPORT: WHERE IS CHINA HEADED?

• Introduction
  
• China's Mixed Economy by Mark A. Groombridge
  
• From Mao to Deng by Harvey Feldman
  
• China and the World by Claude E. Barfield

  WORLD VIEWS
  

• Student Protests in Iran

  PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
  

• Cassandra of Political Science? by Robert R. Selle

  ANALYSIS
  

• Panama Canal: Changing of the Guard by Tom Carter
  
• Hispanization of the U.S. by Rita Colorito

  COMMENTARY
  

• War Clouds Over Asia? by Robert A. Manning and James R. Lilley
  
• Children and Families by Maria Stainer

  EYE ON THE HIGH COURT
  

• This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land by David C. Slade

  MEDIA IN REVIEW
  

• The JFK Jr. Feeding Frenzy by Dirk Smillie

  
  FOOD
  

• A Sensible Y2K Kitchen Looking to Greece and Bulgaria for Wisdom by Linda Joyce Forristal

  EDUCATION
  

• A Wild Irishman in the Hinterlands An Eccentric Professor in Wisconsin by Michael Fedo

  LIFE AND IDEALS
  

• To Kosovo With Love Shoe Boxes for the Kosovar Refugees by Laura Byrd

  
  FEATURED BOOK EXCERPT
  

• Another World by Pat Barker

  FEATURED BOOK COMMENTARY
  

• The Walking Wounded by Michael Thorpe

  REVIEWS

• Epitaph for Two Ages: The First World War by John Keegan reviewed by Alan J. Levine
  
• The Dark Side of Paradise: Bone by Bone by Peter Matthiessen reviewed by Peter Filkins
  
• At the Edge of the Ordinary: Someone to Watch Over Me by Richard Bausch reviewed by Joan Silber
  

  WRITERS AND WRITING

• Teacher from the Elqui by Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier

MILLENNIAL MOMENTS
The Decline and Fall of Latin (and the Rise of English) by David R. Slavitt

THEATER
Brecht Is Back! by John Elsom

MUSIC
Chopin, Poland's Musical Voice A Sesquicentennial Tribute by Tom Pniewski

ART
Van Dyck Rediscovered by Susan Fegley Osmond

GALLERY
BNIM Architects `Designing a Better World'

PERSPECTIVES
Country Goes Pop by Stephen Henkin

AT THE EDGE
The Living Building by Robert J. Berkebile and Jason F. McLennan

NATURE WALK
An Undersea Recluse in the Limelight by Jerry Shine

SCIENCE ESSAY
China's Environment in the Balance by Chenggang (Charles) Wang
Silver Pellets and Remote Programmers by Raymond K. Neff

FOLK WISDOM
Tapestry of Horrors Mystical Beliefs of the Chilo‚ Islanders by Jeanne Conte

PEOPLES
Lighting the Path: A Myanmar Journey by Stephen Osmond

HERITAGE
The Mysterious Death of E.A. Poe: Baltimore's Restless Poet by William Connery
Peace From Blood Minnesota's Pipestone Quarries by Bud Johnston and Rona More

CROSSROADS
The Helper's Perspective: An African-American Volunteer in Nicaragua by Mark H. Lewis

PATTERNS
Changing Face: China at 50 by Fred J. Eckert

FATHERS OF FAITH
Buddha: In His Time and Ours by Charles Hallisey

ESSAYS
Two Sides of the Screen by Richard Breyer
Aftermath of the Balkan War, the Rise of Anti-Americanism, and the End of Democracy in Russia by Vladimir Shlapentokh
The Chinese Military: An Assessment by Dennis J. Blasko