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December  1997  Issue
 
 
Is There a Global-Warming Problem?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Schizophrenia: Not to Be Spoken of Lightly
Taking Sides on Islam 1
Taking Sides on Islam 2

 
SPECIAL REPORT--INSIDE THE VATICAN
Introduction
Editor
What Is the Vatican?
Kenneth D. Whitehead
Who Is Pope John Paul II?
Deal W. Hudson
What Has the Vatican Done Globally?
Robert Royal

ANALYSIS
The Cambodia Debacle
Richard D. Fisher Jr.
The Advent of Islamic Banking
Eugene Sarver
Diana: Why the World Grieved
Frank Alien

COMMENTARY
Distrust, Yugoslav-Style
Alex N. Dragnich
Does a Public Person Deserve a Private Life?: Privacy Is a Right
Tom Rosenstiel
Does a Public Person Deserve a Private Life?: The Public Has Rights Too
John Doolittle

ECONOMIC WATCH
Work-Week Economics
D. Mark Wilson

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Religion News: TV’s Blind Spot?
Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Family Values Advocate
Robert Selle

SUPREME COURT WATCH
The High Bench
David C. Slade

WORLD VIEWS
Mourning Two Icons

 

 
ADVENTURE
Christmas in Antarctica: Christmas at 65 Degrees South
Norman W. Card

FOOD
Christmas Gifts From the Sea: A Sicilian Seafood Christmas
Beverly Levitt

TRENDS
Back to the Land: Jenna in Georgia
Mary Anne Greczyn

 

 
COMMENTARY
The Alchemy of Time: Commentary on Andrei Makine's Dreams of My Russian Summers
Lee Congdon

FEATURED BOOK
Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
Graceless Under Fire
Thomas Deignan
WOMEN WITH MEN
Richard Ford

War Lost in Washington?
Edward S. Shapiro
DERELICTION OF DUTY
H.R. McMaster

A Metaphor for Immigration
Robert Ross
THE MISTRESS OF SPICES
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Lessing's Fifties
Roberta Rubenstein
WALKING IN THE SHADE
Doris Lessing

A Conspiracy of Survival
Michael Thorpe
CHILDREN OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT
Nicholas Mosley

Rising From the Ashes
Norbert J. Yasharoff
A HOLE IN THE HEART OF THE WORLD
Jonathan Kaufman

 

 
 
   

 
ART
Thomas Moran's America
Steve Goode

GALLERY
Aaron Birnbaum: 'Remembering Pictures'
Editor

INTERARTS
Mackintosh Demythologized
Karen S. Chambers

MUSIC
Friends in All Places: Garth Brooks Interview
Stephen Henkin

NEW DIRECTIONS
Dances With Light: The Sun Drawings of Janet Saad-Cook
Susan Fegley Osmond

PERSPECTIVES
Back to Entertainment
Herb Greer

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Doctoring Genes to Beat Disease
William R. Clark

GLOBAL WARMING--SPECIAL FEATURE
Global Warming Is a Major Threat to National and Global Prosperity: No!
Jonathan H. Adler
Global Warming Is a Major Threat to National and Global Prosperity: Yes!
Peggy Duxbury
Developed Countries Should Bear the Initial Costs for Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions: No!
Murray Weidenbaum
Developed Countries Should Bear the Initial Costs for Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Yes!
Dale Jamieson
Lines in the Sand
Michael H. Glantz and Glenn Strait
Legally Binding Limits to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Should Be Imposed Now: No!
Frank Murkowski
Legally Binding Limits to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Should Be Imposed Now: Yes!
John F. Kerry
Human Activities Will Warm Surface Temperatures by 2*F by 2050: No!
S. Fred Singer
Human Activities Will Warm Surface Temperatures 2*F by 2050: Yes!
Michael C. MacCracken

NATURE WALK
'Nature's Perfect Imperfections'
Parvinder S. Sethi

 

   
CROSSROADS
Haven From the Handover: Hong Kong Immigrants Transform Vancouver
Jacqueline Koch

FOLK WISDOM
A Runaway Bun: Russia's Elusive Folk Hero
Elena Pavlova

HERITAGE
Cuts Both Ways: How Americans Regard Spam
George Lewis

PATTERNS
Stranded by the Shore: The Philippines' Land-Trapped Sea Gypsies
Mark Downey

PEOPLES
The Concealed Revealed: Ritual Embroidery of the Jain Nuns
Rajesh Vora
Come Here, Come Here: Belgium Celebrates St. Nicholas' Day
Stephen J. Osmond

 

   
ESSAY
Lessons From the Political Front in New York State
Herb London

THE MAKING OF WINSTON CHURCHILL
Introduction
Editor
Churchill: 'Backward and Precocious'
James W. Muller

THE VIETNAM WAR RECONSIDERED
Uses of the Past: Vietnam as a Metaphor
Ernest W. Lefever
The Bad but Just War
Morton A. Kaplan

 
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