ANALYSIS
Health Care's Hidden Costs
James A. Rice
Behind Pyongyang's Nuclear Strategy
Selig S. Harrison
Challenging the Welfare State
Carl Johan Ljungberg

COMMENTARY
What the U.S. Learned from Somalia
Michael Johns
No Time for Defense Downsizing
F. Andy Messing, Jr.

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Bringing Print Media Online
Melinda Sink

WORLD VIEWS
Peace in Northern Ireland?

 

HEALTH
Is This Operation Really Necessary?
Steve Salerno

LEISURE
Virginia's Little Bit O'Ireland
Linda Joyce Forristal

TRAVEL
Ireland's Pilgrim Paths
Steenie Harvey

FEATURED BOOK: Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat
Culture Clash
Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Ties That Bind
Edward Hower

Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
Return to the 'Res'
Louis Owens
THE BINGO PALACE
Louis Edrich

Defying the Odds
Judith E. Chettle
IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS
Helen Suzman

For Which We Serve
Fred Friedman
A CITY YEAR
Suzanne Goldsmith

Time Travelers
Linda Simon
THE HOLDER OF THE WORLD
Bharati Mukherjee

Formula for Disaster
Scarlet Cheng
A MOTHER'S ORDEAL
Steven W. Mosher

We Are the Hollow Men
Robert Cranny
SLOW WALTZ IN CEDAR BEND
Rovert James Waller

A Wake-Up Call to the Guy Within
David Kirby
THE BOOK OF GUYS
Garrison Keillor

Stalked by Greed
G. Travis Regier
THE LAST HUNT
Horst Stern, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider

DANCE
Just Doing It: Lester Horton's Grandchildren
Maya Wallach

MUSIC
Rare Verdis Get Star Treatment
Philip Kennicott

THEATER
Nights at the Foot of Eternity: The Cairo International Theater Festival
John Elsom

NATURE WALK
Childhood's Creatures
Dwight G. Smith

SCIENCE ESSAY
Scientific Censorship
Thomas G. Kyle

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Georgius Agricola: Looking Beyond Aristotle and Alchemy
William J. McPeak

FOLK WISDOM
Of Mud and the Divine: Creation Myths of the Middle East: Part Two
Ewa Wasilewska

HERITAGE
Bearing Stubborn Fruit: The German Character of Missouri's Wine Region
Daniel W. Marshall

PEOPLES
The Road From Tijuana: Baja's Transpeninsular Highway Drives Cultural Change
Jacqueline Koch
Time to Reflect: The Romeiros of Azorean St. Michael's
Nancy Da Silveira