ANALYSIS
UN Peace: Euphoria vs. Reality
Mark A. Franz
Nueva Nicaragua?
Howard J. Wiarda

COMMENTARY
Social Security at a Crossroads
John Porter
Taiwan: A Model for the Third World
Lee Edwards
Should Israel Negotiate With the PLO?
Morton A. Kaplan

 

CHILDREN
Teachers From the Deep
Hazel Krantz

FASHION
Wet Weather Fashions
Wendi Winters

FOOD
Designer Water
Ronda Miller and Elyse Levine

HEALTH
Is Your Water Safe to Drink?
Elyse Levine

HOME
Bringing the Hot Springs Home
Kate Tsubata

PROFILE
Chesapeake Bay Watermen
Meredith B. Jordan

TRAVEL
Healing Waters of the Holy Land
Mindy Leaf

FEATURED BOOK: Aleksander Wat's Lucifer Unemployed
Introduction
Editor

Lucifer Displaced
Lillian Vallee

Imperfect Faith
Richard Lourie

REVIEWS
Cheap? Tawdry? Exploitive?
Curt Schleir
M.D.
B.H. Kean, M.D., with Tracy Dahlby

Moscow Snapshots
Stanislav Levchenko
KIFE
Nancy Traver

Of Willie's Bondage
Catherine Maclay
WILLIE, THE LIFE OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Robert Calder

Savior or Villain
Max Singer
WARRIOR: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ARIEL SHARON
Ariel Sharon, with David Chanoff

Of Mystic Knights and Visionary Brothers
Robert Royal
THE TEMPLE AND THE LODGE
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

To Dialogue With Eternity
Jacob Neusner
THE TALMUD
Commentary by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

The Comforts and Perils of Home
Henry Taylor
THE ISLAND WITHIN
Richard Nelson
COUNTRY CURED
Jerry Bledsoe

Deep Sheep Dip
Jay Rubin
A WILD SHEEP CHASE
Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum

Millennial Expectations
Richard Quebedeaux
MEGATRENDS 2000
John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene

Physician, Heal Thyself
Beryl Lieff Benderly
MEDICINE WOMEN, CURANDERAS, AND WOMEN DOCTORS
Bobette Perrone, Henrietta Stockel, and Victoria Krueger

A Thoroughgoing Romantic
John Braeman
LEWIS MUMFORD
Donald L. Miller

ART
The Intimate World of Pierre Bonnard
John Loughery
Who Was Albert Pinkham Ryder?
Eric Gibson

DANCE
Prague Dances
Leland Windreich

DESIGN
Majestic Metal Meiji Craft
Victor Harris

FILM
Blaming America Again
Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr.

GALLERY
Joseph Raffael: Woman and Nature as One
Editor

MUSIC
Not Your Ordinary Symphony
Lawrence O'Toole
Dark Angels of the Sax
Francis Davis

PHOTOGRAPHY
The Way Magnum Sees the World
Jason Edward Kaufman

POETRY
Chorus of Newsmen (1922)
John Greening

THEATER
Bard of His People
Michael Marshall
Lloyd Webber Back on Broadway
Herb Greer

IMPACTS
Lithium: Legacy of a Light Element
Michael Woods

NATURE WALK
The Littlest Greenhouse
Rex L. Lowe

SCIENCE ESSAY
The Ocean and Waste Disposal
Michael A. Champ

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt: The Father of Modern Geochemistry
Gunnar Kullerud

FOLK WISDOM--TRICKSTER MYTHOLOGY FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Introduction
Roger L. Welsch
No Problem Can Fail to Crash on His Head: A Trickster in Contemporary African Folklore
Oyekan Owomoyela
The Paradox: The Wise Fool in Turkish Oral Tradition
Paul J. Magnarella and Sheila K. Webster
The Shape Changer Kitsune: The Many Faces of the Japanese Fox
Thomas Wayne Johnson
Child of Chaos: Coyote: A Folkloric Triad
Josepha Sherman
Ma'ii Joldlooshi la' Eeya': The Several Lives of a Navajo Coyote
Barre Toelken
Fitting the Bill: The Trickster in American Popular Culture
Jack Santino

HERITAGE
Slovak Easter Customs in the United States
M. Mark Stolarik

PEOPLES
Saqiya: An Ancient Technology Revised
Randall Fegley