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August  1991  Issue
 
 
 
The Infrastructure Crisis

 
AMERICA'S CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE
Introduction
Editor
Confronting the Crisis
Samuel I. Schwartz and Clark W ieman
Repairing the Fragile Foundations
Joseph M. Giglio
The Key to Economic Growth
David Aschauer
The Case for Privatization
Robert W. Poole, Jr.
The Global Difference
Edward V. Regan
Financing Our Public Works
Forum

 

ANALYSIS
Lessons of the Recession
Daniel J. Mitchell
France Marks the Mitterrand Decade
Harvey B. Feigenbaum

COMMENTARY
The Momentum of Transformation in Central Europe
Donald Jameson
An Open Letter to the New Drug Czar
Mark A.R. Kleiman and Rebecca M. Young
New Priorities in Refugee Care
W.R. Smyser

 

 
FOOD
Costa Rican Cuisine
Kay Shaw Nelson

GARDENS
Small Gardens: Think Big
Virginia Greiner

HEALTH
The Golden Hour
Sherry Von Ohlsen

INTERVIEW
Michael Medved: Distinctions With a Difference
Lissa Roche

PASTIMES
London Bookshops: Bibliophile's Paradise
Herb Greer

PROFILE
How the Peace Corps Saved My Life
Charles R. Larson

 

 
BOOKS FROM ABROAD
The Real Romanian Revolution
Virgil Nemoianu
LEVANTUL
Mircea Cartarescu
FEMEIA IN ROSU
Bucharest: Cartea
ISTORIA LITERATURII ROMANE
Nicolae Manolescu

FEATURED BOOK: Frank Chin's Donald Duk
Introduction
Editor

A Kinder, Gentler Frank Chin
Amy Ling

The Real Versus the Fake
Shawn Wong

'I've Been Workin' on the Railroad'
Sue Fawn Chung

The Spring of Chinese American Letters
Scarlet Cheng

REVIEWS
Straddling the Cultural Divide
Joan Mooney
THE CLAY THAT BREATHES
Catherine Browder

Hollywood Gothic
Mark Schaffer
FLICKER
Theodore Roszak

Finding Peace
George Garrett
THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE
Reynolds Price

A Magellan of the Interior
John C. Tibbetts
HOUSES WITHOUT DOORS
Peter Straub

A Magical Mystery Romp
Richard Howard
ON THE ROAD TO BAGHDAD
Guneli Gun

A Mirror of Plays, a Play of Mirrors
Frank Menchaca
THE LAST DAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Vlady Kociancich

Computing the Future
George Gilder
TECHNOLOGY 2001
Edited by Derek Leebaert
2020 VISION
Bill Davidson and Stan Davis

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Deauville's Mighty Timbers
Marcus Binney

ART
Liubov Popova: Art Into Life
Jason Edward Kaufman
Five Thousand Years of Elegant Chinese Art
Scarlet Cheng

DANCE
Eliot Feld and the Shifting Paradigm
Doris Hering

DESIGN
Luscious Lalique
Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto

FILM
The Way of the Independent
David D'Arcy

MUSIC
Unsung Schreker
Lawrence O'Toole
The Rebirth of English Music
Robert R. Reilly

PERSPECTIVES
Rauschenberg and the Big Question
Eric Gibson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Remembering the Iron Curtain
Mavis Guinard

POETRY
Wild Roses, Words, and Catacombs
B.K. Ngabwe

THEATER
Restructuring the Lithuanian Theater
Nicholas Rudall

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Genetic Engineering's Brave New World
Gail Dutton
Massively Parallel Computing
Sudip Dosanjh, Carl Diegert, and William Camp
Energy Crops for Biofuels
Janet H. Cushman, Lynn L. Wright, and Kate Shaw
Penicillin Allergies May Not Be Forever
Marjorie Centofanti

NATURE WALK
Givers and Takers of Light
Craig F. Bohren

SCIENCE ESSAY
The Wild Side of Fat
Caroline M. Pond

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Eloy Rodriguez: Minding the Botanical Drugstore
Joseph E. Brown

 

   
CROSSROADS
Either Side of the Vardar: Ethnic Tension and Cultural Change in Southern Yugoslavia
Jeffrey and Nancy Folks
The Poetry of Kurdistan: Language Embodies Kurdish National Unity
Joyce Blau

FOLK WISDOM
Two Magic Birds: Part Two
Retold by Jan Knappert

HERITAGE
And Our Mouths Shall Shew Forth Thy Praise: Evensong With a Men and Boys Choir
Christi Ann Merrill

PEOPLES
Kings of the Road: Machismo and Manila's Jeepney Drivers
Herminia Q. Menez
To Seek Their Own Living: The Women of Kelantan, Malaysia
Douglas Raybeck

 

   
ESSAYS
The Values of Freedom
Anthony Flew
Hawthorne and Bellamy: Two Views on Man and Society
Milton Birnbaum
Magic in the Land
Lincoln Allison
Advanced Disillusion: The Writing of History
Linda Simon
The New Women Playwrights
Enoch Brater

EVALUATING THE THATCHER ERA
The Fall of Thatcher
Alfred Sherman
Privatization in Great Britain: Motives, Methods, and Lessons
David Bernstein

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOVIET UNION
Introduction
Morton A. Kaplan
Soviet Economy Heads Westward
Vitali Naishul
The Truth and Nothing But…
Alexei Savchenko
KGB in the Age of Perestroika and Glasnost
Yuri Vlassov

 
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