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October  1997  Issue
 
 
Age and Politics

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Elvis: The Once and Future King
The Rights and Wrongs of Undercover Journalism

 
SPECIAL REPORT--THE CRIME DECLINE: YES AND NO
Introduction
Editor
U.S. Victory in the Crime War?
Timothy W. Maier
The Big Apples Squashes Crime
Robert Emmet Moffit
Europe's Rise in Crime
Norman Dennis

ANALYSIS
The Children of Divorce
Glenn T. Stanton
U.S. Prisons: Gulags or Country Clubs?
Alfred N. Himelson
America's Looming Job Crisis
Richard W. Judy

COMMENTARY
NAFTA: A Failed Approach
Alan Tonelson
NAFTA: A Successful Agreement
Joe Cobb

ECONOMIC WATCH
The ABCs of R&D
Rita Mcdermott Mayer

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Tall Tales vs. Truth at the Tabloids
Robert Lissit

WORLD VIEWS
Reform at the UN?

 

 
HUMOR
Not on Her Majesty's Service: The Canadian Postal Code System
Arthur Kirkby

PROFILE
Paradise Lost, Paradise Gained at Quabbin: The Ironic Price of Water
Christine F. Ridout

TRENDS
Going, Going, Gone: Cyanide Death of South China Sea Coral Reefs
Rita Ariyoshi

 

 
COMMENTARY
Shattered Dreams: Commentary on Philip Roth's American Pastoral
Bernard Rodgers

REVIEWS
Mystery and Things Themselves
Robert Gingher
LIGHTNING SONG
Lewis Nordan

Dream Eaters
Charles R. Larson
DANGEROUS LOVE
Ben Okri

Changing Faces
John Lowe
RACECHANGES
Susan Gubar

It Takes Parents
Eric P. Olsen
THE ASSAULT ON PARENTHOOD
Dana Mack

WRITERS AND WRITING
The Listening Ear: A Profile of Eudora Welty
Marie Dawson

 

 
 
   

 
ART
Renoir's Benevolent Vision
Nancy Baele and Susan Osmond

ARTS WATCH
Today's Museums: Temples or Forums?
S.r. Howarth

CRAFT & DESIGN
Wendy Ramshaw: The Beauty of Surprise
Karen S. Chambers

FILM
Cannes: Fizzling at Fifty
Scarlet Cheng

GALLERY
Gabi Ben-Haim: The Eye of Memory
Editor

INTERARTS
Festival Eclectica: The Lincoln Center Festival
Peter Catalano

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Metals From Coal and Wood
David MacInnes Jr.

CLONING
Introduction
Editor
One Sheep, One Hopeful Step
Ricki Lewis
Entering the Clone Zone
Christopher A. Cullis
Thoughts on Cloning People
Stephen G. Post

NATURE WALK
It's a Nutty World
Roe Ann Wood

 

   
CROSSROADS
Broad Beds and Furrows: Agricultural Development in Ethiopia
Ekaterina Chapotchka; Photographed By Wendy Stone

FOLK WISDOM
When a Star Fell: Spirit Tales From the Philippines
Jan Knappert

HERITAGE
Legacy in Smoke: Ybor City's Role in Cigar Manufacturing
Craig J. Renner

PATTERNS
Where Angels Hover: German Village's Stained Glass
Jeanne Conte

PEOPLES
Playing Gateball: Japanese Combat Senility With Sport
John Traphagen
Norway's Crowning City: Trondheim Celebrates Its Millennium
Stephen Henkin

 

   
ASIAN LITERARY PERSPECTIVES
Rediscovery of the Anticosmos: A New Role for Japanese Literature
Soho Machida
China by Way of Kafka
Orville Schell

ESSAYS
The Rule of Law
Jude P. Dougherty
Frontiers in the New World
Peter Neckermann

 
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