The Atlantic Monthly 1998 - Abstracts

The Atlantic Monthly 1998
TitleSubjectAuthors
A Few Hundred People Turned to Bone.(fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva)News, opinion and commentaryThomas Maeder
America's Maginot Line.(U.S. must rethink military policy vis-a-vis Asia)(Abstract)News, opinion and commentaryPaul Bracken
A Republic -- If We Can Keep It.(politicians focus on money to the exclusion of moral behavior)(Abstract)News, opinion and commentaryJoseph I. Lieberman
Art: Cutting-Edge but Comfy.News, opinion and commentaryCarol Kino
A special moment in history: the future of population.(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryBill McKibben
Back from chaos. (argument for underlying unity informing all disciplines of knowledge)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryEdward O. Wilson
Books: Richard Hofstadter's Tradition An assessment at the half-century mark.News, opinion and commentaryDavid Greenberg
California, here we come: government by plebiscite, which would have horrified the founding fathers, threatens to replace representative government.News, opinion and commentaryPeter Schrag
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?(Central Intelligence Agency)News, opinion and commentaryEdward G. Shirley
Changing the world on a shoestring. (Ashoka: Innovators for the Public)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Bornstein
Could Mad Cow Disease Happen Here?(Abstract)News, opinion and commentaryEllen Ruppel Shell
Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings.(Review)News, opinion and commentaryWilliam Hogeland
Dark Passage: Descending into the depths of California's longest knowncave.(a personal exploration of caving and cavers, or splunkers)(Abstract)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Todhunter
Foreign Affairs: Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain.News, opinion and commentaryGale Eisenstodt
Just as other European cities are getting cold, Buenos Aires is heatingup.News, opinion and commentaryBenjamin^Schwarz Schwarz Christina
Lost in Translation.(computer programs that translate languages very sophisticated)(Abstract)News, opinion and commentaryStephen Budiansky
Missing from much of the recent commentary on Frank Sinatra, oddly, was one pertinent topic: what he meant for music.News, opinion and commentaryFrancis Davis
Music: Corn Bread When I'm Hungry.News, opinion and commentaryWilliam Hogeland
Music: Craft's Stravinsky.News, opinion and commentaryAllen Shawn
Music: Mahler's Unfinished Symphony.News, opinion and commentaryWilliam H. Youngren
Music: Misunderstanding Gershwin.News, opinion and commentaryDavid Schiff
New England places.(favorite spots of editors)News, opinion and commentaryCorby Kummer, Robert D. Kaplan, Cullen Murphy, Peter Davison, Phoebe-Lou Adams, Nicholas Lemann, Barbara Wallraff, Francis DAvis
Nine Misconceptions About Social Security.(Abstract)News, opinion and commentaryDean Baker
Notes and Comment: The Hidden Side of the Clinton Economy.(artficially low poverty line hides the true number of poor people)(Abstract)News, opinion and commentaryJohn E. Schwarz
Photography in the age of falsification.News, opinion and commentaryKenneth Brower
Politics: Should Election Day be a Holiday?News, opinion and commentaryMartin P. Wattenberg
"Ready, Read!".News, opinion and commentaryNicholas Lemann
"Road Rage" Versus Reality.News, opinion and commentaryMichael Fumento
Saving the Nation.(periodical)News, opinion and commentaryVictor S. Navasky
Sculptures in Leather.(saddle makers and the saddles they produce)(Abstract)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Stern, Jane Stern
Sitting in: a jazz writer and amateur drummer turns temporarily pro on the QE2.News, opinion and commentaryWhitney Balliett
The biological basis of morality.(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryEdward O. Wilson
The case against bilingual education.News, opinion and commentaryRosalie Pedalino Porter
The Danger of Space Junk.News, opinion and commentarySteve Olson
The Danger of Space Junk: In a place without landfills, what goes uphad better come down.(space debris poses potential threat to other space vehicles)(Abstract)News, opinion and commentarySteve Olson
The great climate flip-flop.News, opinion and commentaryWilliam H. Calvin
The Indian state of Kerala has everything against it - except success.News, opinion and commentaryAkash Kapur
The lessons of ValuJet 592. (reconstruction of May, 1996 airplane crash)News, opinion and commentaryWilliam Langewiesche
"The New Yorker's" Mr. Shawn.(mystery of William Shown's origins solved)News, opinion and commentaryIan Frazier, Ved Mehta
The social contradictions of Japanese capitalism.(the Japanese economic crises also reflects a social crises)News, opinion and commentaryMurray Sayle
The southern captivity of the GOP.(the Republican party lacking in direction in the 1990s)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryChristopher Caldwell
Today's most mischievous misquotation: Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say. (economist Adam Smith's true meaning in the 'invisible hand' passage of 'Wealth of Nations)News, opinion and commentaryJonathan Schlefer
Travel: A Bird's-eye view of Nepal.News, opinion and commentaryValerie Lester
Travel: A Mediterranean Mix Pantelleria, Italy's island outpost.News, opinion and commentaryG. Franco Romagnoli
Tree surfing and other lofty pleasures. (popularity of technical tree climbing)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Finkel
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