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January  1992  Issue
 
 
 
The Thomas Nomination Debacle

 
2042: A CHOICE OF FUTURES--POSSIBLE DESTINIES
Introduction
Marcelo Alonso
A Utopian World
Morton A. Kaplan
An Address to the Council
Ben Bova
A Land of Empty Abundance?
Jerry E. Pournelle
A Nightmare
Morton A. Kaplan
Report on Planet Earth: A 50-Year Retrospective for A.D. 2042
Charles Sheffield
A Visit to Belindia
Frederik Pohl

2042: A CHOICE OF FUTURES--PROBABLE TECHNOLOGIES
Materials and Energy
Alexander Zucker
The Universal Robot
Hans Moravec
Transportation and Communication
S. Fred Singer
Micro- and Macro-Biological Technologies
Claude A. Villee
Biomedical Technologies
Ernest G. Cravalho
Inhabiting the Oceans
Athelstan Spilhaus
Living in Space
Gerard K. O'Neill

 
SPECIAL REPORT--CONGRESS UNDER FIRE
Introduction
Editor
Let's Clean Up Congress
Donald Lambro
U.S. Voters in Anti-Incumbent Mood
Ralph Hallow
Term Limitation: Its Time Has Come
Paul Calamita and Thomas K. Plofchan, Jr.
Term Limitation: A Perilous Panacea
Timothy S. Prinz

ANALYSIS
Poland's Leap to Democracy
Brian A. Brown
BCCI: Lessons for the World
Eugene Sarver
Ethnic Troubles in Georgia
Peter Klebnikov

COMMENTARY
MIAs: The Final Chapter of the Vietnam War
John McCain
Promoting Democracy in Yugoslavia
Stjepan G. Mestrovic
The Way to Afghan Peace
Lawrence Person

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Russia's Defiant Business Tabloid
Brad Durham

 

 
FOOD
Those Magnificent Macadamias
Adrianne Marcus

GARDENS
Finding the Garden
Gregory McNamee

INTERVIEW
Mailer's Many Lives
Julia Braun Kessler

PROFILE
Awake in Belfast
Patrick J. Sweeney

TRAVEL
House of Diamonds
Taj Flynn

TRENDS
New Man Down South
William Gordon

 

 
BOOKS FROM ABROAD
The Sounds of Silence
Charlotte Green

FEATURED BOOK: Larry Brown's Joe
Introduction
Editor

The Heart Survives
Alex Standefer

In the Wake of Faulkner
Walter Sullivan

The Firehouse Bard
Robert F. Geary

REVIEWS
O Brave New (Virtual) World
Ben Bova
VIRTUAL REALITY
Howard Rheingold

God, the Devil, and the Agency
Bruce Allen
HARLOT'S GHOST
Norman Mailer
THE LIVES OF NOMAN MAILER
Carl Rollyson

The Price of Character
Dennis Teti
UNDER FIRE
Oliver L. North, with William Novak

A New World Symphony in Fiction
Lauren Weiner
A HAMMOCK BENEATH THE MANGOES
Thomas Colchie

Color Them Funny
Gerald Early
THE ADVENTURES OF AMOS 'N' ANDY
Melvin Patrick Ely

The Discovery of Poverty
Linda Simon
POVERTY AND COMPASSION
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Separate Lives, Equal Dreams
Gregory Wolfe
TWO LIVES
William Trevor

The Next Generation
Ed Foster -Simeon
REFLECTIONS OF AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABY
Stephen L. Carter
BOURGEOIS BLUES
Jake Lamar

Acts of Forgiveness
Roberta Rubenstein
DAUGHTERS
Paule Marshall

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Prisons With a Human Face
Shira Rosan

ART
Museum Without Walls
Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto
Chang Dai-chien: Transformational Traditionalist
Scarlet Cheng
Circumnavigating the Columbus Quincentennial
Eric Gibson

DANCE
Belgium's Theater of Movement
Gary Parks
Transcending the Image: France's Montpellier Dance
Maya Wallach

DESIGN
The Uncontradictable Dan Dailey
Karen S. Chambers

FILM
Is There Life After Bergman?
David D'Arcy

MUSIC
Tabloid Opera
Lawrence O'Toole
A Memorial in Music
Tom Pniewski

PHOTOGRAPHY
All-Embracing Camera
Larry R. Thall

THEATER
Searching Off-Broadway for Excellence
William Ruhlmann
Hail to King Ubu!
Claudia Woolgar

 

   
CROSSROADS
Three Steps Back: Reinventing Cuba
Marie D. Price and photographed by Rob Crandall
Defender of Dagestan: A Legendary Hero Embodies a Nation's Quest for Freedom
Ruth Daniloff and photographed by Eduard Gladkov

FOLK WISDOM
Powwowing in Pennsylvania: An Ancient Tradition Refuses to Die
Thomas E. Graves

HERITAGE
The Names We Give
Roger Welsch

PEOPLES
Trichur Pooram: Elephant Festival in Kerala
Lalit Gambhir
Dance and Ethnicity: Philippine Folk Culture: Part Two
Linda Pandes Jacob

 

   
GLOBAL HOMOGENEITY
Small Worlds and Real Things
Lincoln Allison

LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
Of Time and Eternity: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Writers
Walter Poznar
Dorothy Sayers' Encounter With Dante
M. D. Aeschliman

THE MORALITY OF WAR
From Mainline to Sideline: The Churches' Failure of Moral Guidance During Desert Storm
Walter W. Benjamin

THE PRESCHOOL YEARS: ENHANCING CLASSROOM READINESS
Introduction
Editor
How to Prepare Children for School
Linus Wright
New Directions for Head Start
Douglas J. Besharov
The Crispus Attucks Association Preschool Program
Robert J. Hollis
Education for the Preschool Child
Diane McGuinness
The Renaissance Children
Glenn Doman
Morals, Ethics, and Early Childhood Education
Thomas P. Masty and Kevin Ryan

 
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