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April  1999  Issue
 
 
 
Alexander Bogdanov and Tektology

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Costs of School Vouchers
The Expensive Illogic of Missile Defense
The Social Message of Sargent's Art

 
MILLENNIAL MOMENTS
The Scientific Revolution Reshapes the World
Richard G. Olson

 
SPECIAL REPORT--INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Introduction
Editor
How Other Central Banks Work
Anne Sibert
Should the Fed Be Reformed?
Lawrence B. Lindsey
What the Fed Does and Doesn't Do
Patrice Hill

ANALYSIS
International Corruption: So What?
Nancy Bord
The Politics of Pathology
Kristine Napier

COMMENTARY
A Better Health-Care System
Donald L. Price
A Better Health-Care System

EYE ON THE HIGH COURT
The Census Case: No Statistical Apportionment
David C. Slade

GLOBAL FORUM--THE REALITY OF GLOBAL AIDS
South Africa: Mobilizing All Possible Resources
Sean Cleary
Thailand: Lessons From a Strong National Response
Werasit Sittritai
Global AIDS: Out of Control?
Ian Murray

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Sex Surge in Women's Magazines
Cynthia Grenier

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
James Dobson Jr.: Advocate for Family Values
Robert R. Selle

WORLD VIEWS
President Clinton Acquitted

 

 
FOOD
Breads for Christ: European Easter Breads Shaped for the Season
Sharon Hudgins

HEALTH
Gardens of Hope: The Restorative Power of Healing Gardens
Patricia L. Fry

TRAVEL
Resurrection in Rhodes: An Impressionable Visit at Easter
Herb Greer

 

 
COMMENTARY
The Mark of Africa: Commentary on Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Roberta Rubenstein

FEATURED BOOK
Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
A Passionate Faith
Mark Richard Barna
THE LIFE OF THOMAS MORE
Peter Ackroyd

Where the Nightmare Began
Peter Filkins
THE CONVERSION
Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Jeffrey M. Green

The Nostalgia of Exile
Edward Hower
THE SANDGLASS
Romesh Gunesekera

Stratemeyer's Remarkable Writing Machine
Charles R. Larson
THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF NANCY DREW AND THE HARDY BOYS
Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman

Reconciling Merit and Fairness
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
THE SHAPE OF THE RIVER
William G. Bowen and Derek Bok

WRITERS AND WRITING
A Teller's Tale: A Profile of Elizabeth McCracken
Jill E. Rendelstein

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
'Jewel of the South': Savannah's Historic District
Stephen Henkin

ARTS WATCH
Ciao, Baby!: Hello and Good-bye to Italian Design
Karen S. Chambers

FILM
Rending the Veil: The Search for the Spiritual in Recent Cinema
Scarlet Cheng

GALLERY
Molly Stone, Michael Cohn: The Beauty of Opposites
Editor

MUSIC
Duke Ellington: Aristocrat and Revolutionary
Tom Pniewski

TELEVISION
Bring on the Clones: Twenty-something Shows Run Amok
Cynthia Grenier

 

   
AT THE EDGE
New Carbon Molecules Make Stronger Metals
Jennifer Job

NATURE WALK
Rites of Spring
Dwight G. Smith

 

   
CROSSROADS
Symphony and Dissonance: Uniting Bosnia Through Music
Peter Slavin

FOLK WISDOM
Your Mother Is Still Your Mother: Games and Toys in Traditional Zambia: Part 1
Mwizenge S. Tembo

HERITAGE
Point of Entry: Baltimore, the Other Ellis Island
William Connery

PEOPLES
A Living Fossil?: In Search of Celtic Heritage in Galicia, Spain
Elyn Aviva; Photographed By Gary White
Three Decades of Change: The Shan Villages of Northwestern Thailand
E. Paul Durrenberger And Nicola Tannenbaum

 

   
ESSAYS
Tribe and Scalia on the Constitution: A Third View
Morton A. Kaplan
Muckraker in Chief
Linda Simon

RELIGION VS. THE SECULAR ETHOS
Introduction
Editor
The Dubious Liberalism of Stephen Carter
Gerard V. Bradley

 
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