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August  1990  Issue
 
 
The Medical Profession in Transformation

 
SPECIAL REPORT--PERESTROIKA IN BLACK AFRICA
Introduction
Editor
A Decade of Decline
George B.N. Ayittey
The Winds of Democracy
Michael Johns
Africa in the 1990s: What the West Can Do
Peter Duignan

ANALYSIS
The Real War in Peru
Gregory Grant
Haiti: Facing Democracy and Disaster
Timothy Quinlan
Inside the Soviet Army
Stanislav Levchenko
Feud Across the Caucasus
Jonathan Derrick

COMMENTARY
Needed: A U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement
B. Timothy Benett
Eastern Europe: Financing From Within
Ivan Pongracic
U.S.-China Relations in the Post-Deng Era
Gerrit W. Gong
How to Fix the Deficit Without Raising Taxes
Alan L. Keyes

 

 
ADVENTURE
Adventure: Yo-Ho-Ho and a Treasure of Fun
Harvey Hagman

CHILDREN
Growing Up Attached
Brenda Hunter

FOOD
Take My Kids to the Restaurant? Are You Kidding?
Celeste McCall

GARDENS
Little Green Thumbs
Karen Karvonen

HOME
'Oh Boy! What a Room!'
Kate Tsubata

PROFILE
She Loves the Little Children
Marijane Schaefer

SPORTS
Bela Karolyi
Heather B. Hayes

 

 
BOOKS FROM ABROAD
Africa's Economic Ills
George B.N. Ayittey

FEATURED BOOK: Richard Nixon's In the Arena
Introduction
Editor

Nixon-in-the-Box
Barbara Kellerman

The Personal Nixon
Russ Braley

REVIEWS
A Preference for Illusion
Eugene J. McCarthy
PREFERENTIAL POLICIES;
Thomas Sowell

Portrait of an Artist
George Garrett
THE TONGUES OF ANGELS
Reynolds Price

Conscience in Exile
Richard Lourie
BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Edited by Robert Kostrzewa

China's Conundrum
Wen Fang Tang
"TELL THE WORLD"
Liu Binyan With Ruan Ming and Xu Gang

A Never-ending Adventure
Richard K. McMaster
GREAT POSSESSIONS
David Kline

Arms and Future Wars
Herbert E. Meyer
ENGINES OF WAR
James Adams

Dreams and Realities
John Braeman
MATERIAL DREAMS
Kevin Starr

An Elegant Soap Opera
Cynthia Grenier
AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN
Dominick Dunne

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Piet Blom: Turning Architecture Upside Down
Marcus Binney

ART
Pavel Filonov: Sixty Years Later
Michael Gibson
The Art of Francis Bacon
Jason Edward Kaufman

DANCE
Paul Taylor: Better Than Ever
Otis Stuart

DESIGN
Robert Brady: Speaking to the Collective Unconscious
Cheryl White

FILM
Summer of the Megamillion Movie
Martin Sieff

INTERARTS
The Cyrano Craze
Curtis Cate

MUSIC
Hal Prince Does Faust
Philip Kennicott
Music Giants of the North, Part Two
Robert R. Reilly

POETRY
Beauty in the Moment
Cornelia Hoogland

THEATER
One Big Soul
Lawrence O'Toole
Bringing Back Faith and Decency
Herb Greer

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Electric Vehicles
William O. Briggs, Jr.
Vacuum Tubes: The Sequel
Hank Hogan
Massive Meteorites in Geological History
David Alt, James W. Sears, Donald W. Hyndman

IMPACTS
Refrigerators and Air Conditioners: Keeping Our Cool
Harold Goldwhite

NATURE WALK
From the Gods of Chaos
Nancy C. Knight

SCIENCE ESSAY
Rain Forest Economics
Charles M. Peters

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov: The Father of Russian Science
George B. Kauffman

 

   
CROSSROADS
Far From the Land of Sheba: Ethiopian Political Refugees in New York City
Elizabeth D. Wise

FOLK WISDOM
Yu-yen: Classical Chinese Fables
Pack Carnes

HERITAGE
The Mysterious Matachine
Jerry Sinkovec

PEOPLES
Shaped by the Winds: The Ivatans' Struggle Against Natural Elements
Guillermo E. Veloso
At the Shrine of the Pir: India's Healing Saints
Jane Schreibman
Marajó: Where the Amazon Meets the Sea
Jerry Emory

 

   
ESSAYS
Attitudes to Africa's Crisis: Historical Questions and Comparisons
Basil Davidson
Hemingway's Paris: A Moveable Feast Revisited
Philip Gerard
'Never Enough of Nothing to Do': On the Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton
James V. Schall, S.J.
Pirandello and the Restructuring of the Modern Stage
Anne Paolucci

HEALTH CARE: IT'S NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE
From Cottage Industry to Big Business: Impact on Medical Practice
Reinhard Priester
Today's Doctor: Physician or Technician?
Walter W. Benjamin
The Doctor and I: Old Roles and New Realities
E. Haavi Morreim
Medicine and the Consumer Revolution
Charles B. Inlander
The Malpractice Dilemma
James R. Venaina and Susan A. Burns

 
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