Utne Reader 1993 - Abstracts

Utne Reader 1993
TitleSubjectAuthors
A 2,000-mile love canal: people on both sides lose with the free-trade agreement. (Across the Border)General interestWilliam Greider
A declaration of sustainability: 12 steps society can take to save the whole enchilada.General interestPaul Hawken
Adios, frijoles: Pepsi, Froot Loops, and Doritos invade the Mexican diet. (Across the Border)General interestBrad Miller
Adventures in adult comics land. (Mixed Media)General interestTerri Sutton
A galaxy of trekkies. (diversity of Star Trek fans) (In Brief)General interestElizabeth Larsen
America's car of tomorrow may be a bike: bicycles as an alternative to pollution and congestion. (In Brief)General interestStephen Wheeler
America's political blues: and how green thinking might help.General interestJayy Walljasper
A nation gone wild: crime is individualism run amok - in corporate suites as well as ghetto streets. (includes related article)General interestCharles Derber
A new meaning for manana: it's 2061, and the Rio Grande is now only a river. (Across the Border)General interestIlan Stavans
Animal goodbyes: how do we mourn a cockatiel? (Gleanings)General interestMarion Wink
Are women morally superior to men: debunking 'difference' feminism. (includes related article)General interestKatha Pollitt
A tough cop on the trail of hope. (former Washington D.C. police chief, Isaac Fullwood)(includes related article) (Cover Story)General interestAmitai Etzioni, Vicki Kemper, Patti Wolter
Attack of the bionic tomatoes: bioengineered food is on its way to your grocery shelves. (In Brief)General interestOsha Gray Davidson
Audre Lorde (1934-1992). (Black lesbian poet)General interestLinda Wng
A view from the booth: the world as seen by a parking lot attendant. (excerpt) (Gleanings)General interestMark Heisenberg
Bang bang kill kill. (motion picture violence)General interestDavid Brauer
Beyond chick and dude: slang from the front lines of teen romance. (excerpt) (Gleanings)General interestChristina Kelly
Beyond the Amazon. (preservation of other ecosystems) (In Brief)General interestWill Nixon
Bird baths. (saving wildlife from oil spills) (Gleanings)General interestJim Nollman
California Conservation Corps: will California's work-service program serve as a national model? (In Brief)General interestGreg King
Card sharks. (Hallmark Cards Inc. expands market) (Gleanings)General interestGordon Young
Caring means curing: an expanded role for nurses would bring healthy results to our medical system.General interestSuzanne Gordon
Children of the universe. (child rearing as a social responsibility)(includes related articles)(excerpt from The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda) (Who Cares About Kids?) (Cover Story)General interestAmitai Etzioni, David Segal, Michael Warren
Chilling scenarios for the post-cold-war world: foreign policy experts gaze into the crystal ball. (In Brief)General interestKevin Kelly
Common ground: commitment to a place means bonding with neighbors - no matter how different they are from you.General interestDaniel Kemmis
Confessions of a law-and-order liberal. (self-protection against crime) (Cover Story)General interestLynell Mickelsen
Cowboys (and cowgirls) are our weakness: Americans can't get enough of pointy boots and big hats. (In Brief)General interestElizabeth Larsen
Daddytrack. (combining fatherhood and career)(includes related article)(excerpt from Mothering) (Who Cares About Kids?) (Cover Story)General interestRebecca Baggett, John Byrne Barry
Day care: a grand and troubling social experiment. (excerpt from The Progressive) (Who Cares About Kids?) (Cover Story)General interestDorothy Conniff
Deconstructing community: can a house divided survive hard times?General interestDavid Morris
Deconstructing Willie: the taco as imperialist symbol. (Texan Willie Nelson) (Gleanings)General interestStephen Harrigan
Do gays and lesbians get along? Yes and no.General interestLaura M. Markowitz
Eat my shorts. (short films) (In Brief)General interestPatricia Thompson
Eco-warriors: can the military be our first line of environmental defense? (In Brief)General interestMiles Harvey
Empowerment, Carribean style: what African-Americans can learn from black immigrants.General interestPercy Hintzen
Ending the battle between the sexes: first separate, then communicate.General interestAaron R. Kipnis, Elizabeth Hingston
Episodes: a writer celebrates life's moments of truth.General interestPierre Delattre
Ethnic cleansing in Kuwait: repression rules in the kingdom "freed" by Desert Storm.General interestJon Reed
Fear itself: women's constant stress over safety creates health problems.General interestSusan Kushner Resnick
Fighting back against crime: community groups struggle to take back the streets.General interestSam Newlund
Florence Nightingale revisited: nurses have long worked for improved health care.General interestSuzanne Gordon
Forsaking vengeance: to forgive is still divine. (excerpt) (Gleanings)General interestGregg Levoy
From Russia with love and squalor. (Russia struggles with reform)(includes related article)(excerpt from The Nation)General interestMichael Ignatieff, Andrew Kopkind
From the Czech republic with love and dreams. (from communism to democracy)(excerpt from Summer Meditations)General interestVaclav Havel, Paul Wilson
Fundamentalism with a human face: the religious right shows its other side. (In Brief)General interestDanny Duncan Collum
Get rail.(train travel in Europe and the US)General interestJay Walljasper, Patrick McCaffrey
Getting there: transportation planners should focus on fiber optics and shoe leather instead of more concrete. (In Brief)General interestDavid Morris
Grass is not always greener: reasons not to love lawns. (In Brief)General interestAdelheid Fischer
Greetings from the electronic plantation: a day in the life of the working poor. (implications of computer revolution on service workers)(includes related article)General interestRoger Swardson, Martin Sprouse
Hand jive: in the 90s, is masturbation coming into its own?General interestCaryn Brooks
Hanky panky: deciphering the gay bandana code. (excerpt) (Gleanings)General interest 
Happily hoofing it: dancing draws us nearer to the divine. (excerpt)General interestRonald E. Kotzsch
Have we grown too mature? in praise of pouting and jealousy. (excerpt) (Gleanings)General interestCaroline Knapp
Have we outgrown the age of heroes? (changes in the concepts of heroism)(includes related articles)General interestWalter Truett Anderson, Nancy Berry
Hawaii O-O? (independence movement among Hawaiian natives)(excerpt from Honolulu Weekly) (Reader Redux)General interestDerek Ferrar, Julia Steele
Health care for less: physician's assistants could meet some health care needs.General interestJames Workman
He'll make Latin lovers of us all. (musician Juan Luis Guerra) (In Brief)General interestJ. Poet
Help for canaries and cockatoos: newly passed Wild Bird Conservation Act will save endangered birds. (In Brief)General interestLynette Lamb
His-and-hers politics: a woman explains her unease about the men's movement.General interestBarbara Kingsolver
Homeplace: a few words on behalf of staying put.General interestScott Russell Sanders
Home, safe home: what lurks behind the walls in America's new high security suburbs. (Cover Story)General interestDavid Guterson
I must be going: in praise of moving and moving and moving ...General interestRichard Ford
In praise of procrastination. (Gleanings)General interestRebecca Rupp
In yo' face: basketball and the black experience. (excerpt) (Gleanings)General interestSyl Jones
It's a jungle out there, so get used to it! Women need to realize that men are testosterone-driven animals.General interestCamille Paglia
Just friends: can men and women do it - without doing it? (sexual intimacy and platonic friendships)General interestAbby Ellin
Kelly's heroes. (Australian musician Paul Kelly) (In Brief)General interestSteve Perry
Kitty cruelty: why is animal abuse punished so lightly? (excerpt) (Gleanings)General interestMerritt Clifton
Lifestyles of the poor and working. (dual career families and poverty in the US)General interestLynette Lamb
Lift every voice. (musical activists) (Gleanings)General interestBilly Altman
Looking for rainforest heroes: between rhetoric and reality on an ecotour in Brazil. (includes related articles)General interestRob Buchanan, Ira Silver, Michael Passoff
Loving your inner bitch. (PMS-caused behavior) (Gleanings)General interestElizabeth Hilts
Making body art: piercing and tattoing are gaining more mainstream acceptance. (In Brief)General interestJulie Caniglia
MBAs now rule the newsroom: why the public is right to distrust the news media. (Master of Business Administration degree holders) (In Brief)General interestLawrence Soley
Mean streets: raising kids on the front lines of urban fear. (children and violence) (Cover Story)General interestMeredith Maran
Menfriends: male friendship and social change.General interestTerry A. Kupers
Mexico City is an omen: a warning for us about the cost of modern progress. (Across the Border)General interestNathan Gardels, Marilyn Berlin Snell
Moving toward independence: the Americans with Disabilities Act and what it means.General interestGeeta Dardick
Multicultural mixups: postmodern cowboys and New Age Indians.General interestWalter Truett Anderson
Multimedia moves beyond the filmstrip. (Mixed Media )General interestDenise Caruso
My way: are control freaks taking over? (over-bearing behavior) (Gleanings)General interestMargo Kaufman
Nanofashion: a futurist fantasy about programmable clothes.General interestDavid Borcherding
Networking overtime: the difference between 'good people' and 'good people to know.'General interestJeff Reid
Ni modo: these two words offer Mexicans a comfort that Americans lack. (Across the Border)General interestKaren Lehman
No hassles: the ultimate perk of the ruling class is freedom from pesky details. (rich people)General interestEric Knogsberg
One's company: is there something unnatural about living alone?General interestBarbara Holland
On the clothesline. (environmental benefits of traditional clothes drying) (Gleanings)General interestJennifer Bennett
Our secret plan: what will our grandchildren say? (use and management of the earth's resources)General interestDaniel Quinn
Petra Kelly (1947-1992). (environmentalist)General interestPaul Hockenos
Preservation without gentrification: how to save historical nieghborhoods without driving away the longtime residents. (In Brief)General interestJohn Tibbetts
Public space minus the public: we are abandoning democracy in our desire for personal security. (In Brief)General interestRobert Gerloff
Rappers from the Rez? Native American music, both traditional and contemporary, is in the air.General interestJ. Poet
Redefining revolution: the new politics of hippies with a different haircut.General interestL.A. Kauffman
Responsibility to respond: what one friend owes another.General interestDiane Cole
Revolution girl-style now! Feminists take to the streets - in spike heels and gorilla masks.General interestHelen Antrobus
Rude awakening: is politeness a lost cause? (Gleanings)General interestMark Leibivich
Shadow across the Rio Grande: fear and fascination - why we feel both about Mexico. (Across the Border)General interestMorris Berman
Smoothing out life in edge city: how to turn sprawling suburbs into comfortable, compact communities. (In Brief)General interestAdelheid Fischer
Social responsibility: a conservative view. (corporate social responsibility)General interestDoug Bandow
Split personality. (Stride Rite Corp.'s social responsibility)General interestJoseph Pereira
Strangers in a strange land: a resettlement project brings a thousand Tibetans to the United States. (includes related articles)General interestKarma Gyatsho Zurkhang
Term limits for pundits: they're as much a part of the big-money establishment as politicians. (Gleanings)General interestNorman Solomon, Jeff Cohen
Test patterns: why would-be guitar heroes drive music store clerks crazy.General interestJ.D. Considine
The blame game: the cause of equality will not be served by pointing fingers.General interestSam Keen
The boss is watching. (computer surveillance of workers) (Gleanings)General interest 
The business of business: the meaning, limits and promise of socially responsible business.General interest 
The drying game. (water scarcity)(includes related articles)(excerpt from Der Speigel)General interestHelen Cordes, Kirkpatrick Sale
The fight is far from over: a young black woman's take on Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill.General interestRebecca Walker
The Guardian (1948-1992). (newsweekly magazine) (In Brief)General interestKevin J. Kelly
The health police. (people overconscious about diet) (Gleanings)General interestLinda Bridges
The kids are all right. (bias against day care centers)(excerpt from Mother Jones) (Who Cares About Kids?) (Cover Story)General interestSusan Faludi
The lusty month of May. (history of Maytime celebrations) (Gleanings)General interestGerry Thompson
The new family values. (family life in the 1990s)(includes related article)(excerpt from Family Affairs) (Who Cares About Kids?) (Cover Story)General interestGeeta Dardick, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
The perfect dictatorship: U.S. support props up Mexico's corrupt politicians. (Across the Border)General interestWilliam Greider
The power of global thinking? The ecology movement debates the pitfalls of "lanetary consciousness."General interestJeremiah Creedon
There's no specialization like home: making a career out of the place you live.General interestJohn K. Bullard
The streets of Los Angeles. (crime in Los Angeles, California)General interestRita Williams
The transplant trade: supply and demand in the human organ business. (In Brief)General interestJeremiah Creedon
The United States of North America: increasing economic unity calls for a new form of continental government. (Across the Border)General interestAndrew Reding
The valley of thirst: Mexico City is running out of water. (Across the Border)General interestEduardo Monteverde
Those fabulous '50s: the facts tarnish reputation of our last golden era. (debunked myths of the 1950s ) (In Brief)General interestJeff Reid
Those little town blues. (destruction of rural communities) (Mixed Media)General interestOsha Gray Davidson
Top 10 censored stories of 1992. (In Brief)General interestMiles Harvey
Uneasy listening. (changes in public radio stations)(includes related article)General interestDavid Armstrong, Rachel Anne Goodman
Watchdogs around town: journalism publications target local media.General interestRichard Reynolds
We are family: why gays and lesbians build strong bonds.General interestLaura Markowitz
Welfare hell: welfare rules make it hard for disabled people to work.General interestJohn Callahan
What comes around: friendship is sometimes granted, sometimes earned.General interestJoan Frank
What friends are for: they offer the noblest and most delightful of gifts.General interestPhillip Lopate
When the bond breaks: do friendships end with a bang or a whimper?General interestCaroline Knapp
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? (moral decline in sports heroes)General interestMatthew Goodman
Whole lotta scribblin' going on: rock writing yesterday, today, and tomorrow.General interestSteve Perry
Who's on top? a revisionist history of men and women.General interestBrenda Ueland
Why do we need celebrities? (includes related article)(excerpt from Sassy)General interestChristina Kelly, Ted Tollefson
Why I hate people: confessions of a misanthrope. (excerpt) (Gleanings)General interestFlorence King
Women in lab coats. (feminist approach to science) (In Brief)General interestMary Morse
Women & men: can we get along? should we even try?General interestLawrence Wright
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