ANALYSIS
Reinventing Waste
Donald Lambro
Clogging the Halls of Government?
Bill Pascoe

COMMENTARY
Choice Can Save California Schools
Janet R. Beales
Setting Priorities at the United Nations
Andrew J. Cowin

FORUM
Japan's New Destiny

MEDIA IN REVIEW
The Voices of America
Walter R. Roberts

WORLD VIEWS
Israel and the PLO Do the Impossible

 

CONSUMER
Travel Scam Alert
Brooke Dorman

FOOD
A Healthier Holiday with Sucanat
Linda Joyce Forristal

TRAVEL
Hidden Treasures in Ancient Beit-She'an
Varda Avnisan

FEATURED BOOK: Ben Okri's Songs of Enchantment
Introduction
Editor

The Trials of a Nation
Vinay Dharwadker

Africa's Magical Musician of Prose
Charles R. Larson

REVIEWS
The Decline and Fall of H.G. Wells
Michael D. Aeschliman
THE INVISIBLE MAN
Michael Coren

A Discourse on Morality
Lloyd Eby
THE MORAL SENSE
James Q. Wilson

What in Morality Is Innate?
Morton A. Kaplan
THE MORAL SENSE
James Q. Wilson

Excusing Rape
Darcy O'Brien
SEX CRIMES
Alice Vachss

Direction or Selection?
Richard L. Lewis
THE ORIGINS OF ORDER
Stuart A. Kauffman

The Birth of the Blues
Eric P. Olsen
THE LAND WHERE THE BLUES BEGAN
Alan Lomax

ART
Joan Miró: A New Genesis
Susan Fegley Osmond

DANCE
Where Angels Tread: Honoring the Balanchine Tradition
Camille Hardy

MUSIC
Penderecki at Sixty: Poland's Global Voice
Tom Pniewski

POETRY
Night Thoughts
Translated by Graeme W1lson

THEATER
Fearful Eye on the West: A Russian Views the McCarthy Years
Herb Greer

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
Global Climate Crucible
Henry Lansford

NATURE WALK
Parrots Abroad
Dwight G. Smith

SCIENCE ESSAY
The Status of DNA Fingerprinting
Bruce S. Weir

FOLK WISDOM
Tarred Innocents or Dark Omens?: The Ambiguous Legends of Black Cats
Linda K. Wood
Yenaldlooshi: The Shape-Shifter Beliefs of the Navajos
James Burbank

HERITAGE
Memories of War: Was World War I a Heroic Crusade or a Traumatic Nightmare?
Peter C. Rollins

PEOPLES
Walls Cry for Light: Interior Decoration of Berber Homes
Rabah Seffal
A Chum Alone: A Day Among Siberia's Reindeer Breeders
Elena Pavlova