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