Utne Reader 1997 - Abstracts

Utne Reader 1997
TitleSubjectAuthors
Adventures in the skin trade.(prostitution in Cuba)General interestCoco Fusco
A life of story.(journalist Jon Spayde)(Editorial)General interestHugh Delehanty
All over the map.(other enlightened towns)General interestJay Walljasper, Daniel Kraker
A magna carta for multinationals: a new international agreement threatens to make capital sovereign over the world's citizens.General interestDavid Morris
America's 10 most enlightened towns.(Cover Story)General interestStan Fellows
America the hun.(unethical U.S. foreign policy)General interestHarold Pinter
A nation of spin doctors: why is everybody ducking responsibility?General interestKaren Karbo
Are black people cooler than white people? Dumb question.(Cover Story)General interestDonnell Alexander
Are you dysfunctional enough to be a bestselling author?(satire)General interestBarbara Wood Graham
Artist-run rock. (folk-rock musician Ani DiFranco)General interestMichael Marciano
Barbara Ehrenreich.(Mixed Media)General interest 
Beyond the bale: how seven friends turned a house of straw into a community of solid gold.General interestLinda Buturian
Bottom-line blues: is ethical business only a dream?General interestMary Scott
Choreographer of chaos.(Amanda Miller)General interestJelena Petrovic
City Indian: hunting for my heritage (and cafe au lait) in the urban wilderness.General interestDrew Hayden Taylor
Clothing your conscience: a shopper's guide to guilt-free fabrics.General interestLinda Buturian
Couch potato Buddha.(Tales of the New Pilgrim)(Excerpt)General interestGretel Erlich
Crip sheet: why the able-bodied still don't get it.General interestAndre Dubus
Crisis of confidence. (psychotherapy)(Cover Story)General interestAnnie Gottlieb
Culture healers: ten innovative therapists who do more than just talk.General interestLaura Markowitz
Degrees of money: are college consultants giving rich kids an edge?General interestEvan Forster
Enlightened? Who, Us?(View from Loring Park)General interestHugh Delehanty
Every breath she takes. (environmental illness caused by EPA office)(includes related article)General interestTerese Svoboda
Everyday shrines.General interestFrancine Maroukian
Get me rewrite! how the new market-driven journalism is turning our stories into industrial waste.General interestJeremy Iggers
Going with the faux.(Humor)General interestSandra Tsing Loh
Green spoilers: playing hardball politics, eco-style.General interestDavid Futrelle
Grubby: how to become one with the earth.General interestSueEllen Campbell
Heaven on ice.(Gleanings)General interestEliot Weinberger
Hip hot spots. (Canadian and US destinations)General interestJay Walljasper, Daniel Kraker
Holy hustling: sex-for-hire as a spiritual path.(Gleanings)General interestGerald Hannon
How I escaped my addiction to hip.General interestEve Ensler
How not to repair America: forget about fixing the system. Here's the way to real change.(Excerpt)General interestSam Smith
How to be a romantic poet: a wannabe's guide to the literary life.(humor; reprinted from Feb/Mar 1997 issue of Civilization)General interestAdam Goodheart
How to tell time like a cow ... and lose weight too.(Excerpt)General interestRobert Levine
In praise of asphalt nation: why cars are a blessing, not a curse.General interestJames Q. Wilson
In search of a cybertax: governments are desperately trying to cash in on Internet commerce.General interestPeter Katel
In the shadow of the giants: endangered booksellers are struggling to master the art of survival.General interestSuzanne Mantell
Ithaca, Shmithaca: a second opinion from a candid local.(Cover Story)General interestBrad Edmondson
It took a village. (excerpt from Exile's Return)General interestMalcolm Cowley
Journey to the end of the world.(pilgrimage narrative)(Excerpt)General interestLee Hoinacki
Jung and his shadow: a new biography portrays the Swiss psychologist as the quintessential trickster. (Carl Jung)General interestRobert F. Mannis
Keith Jarrett.(jazz musician)(Interview)General interestKeith Goetzman
Keys to the future: resources for the new therapy.(Directory)General interest 
Lake of dreams: what I learned from Chicago's healing waters. (Lake Michigan)General interestSusan Power
L'amour langoureuse: a tale of seduction. (excerpt from 'Slowness')General interestMilan Kundera
Let them eat lifestyle: from hip to hype - the ultimate corporate takeover.General interestTom Frank
Life after hard time: an ex-bank robber reflects on freedom's down side.(Gleanings)General interestJ.S. Loya
Looking for a story to tell: the Navajo path to my Jewish past.(reprinted from Winter 1996 issue of Southwest Review)General interestEmily Benedek
Love for sale $5/B.O.: a journey into the savage heart of the classifieds.General interestStacey Grenrock
Making friends with fear: what to do when things fall apart.(advice from Pema Chodron)(Excerpt)General interestPema Chodron
Mama bear: an adopted son explores the hidden landscape of his family.General interestColin Chisholm
Mohammed's journey: the making of a young revolutionary. (Mohammed Brahim)General interestJohn Berger
Mother of silence.(Mother Meera)(Tales of the New Pilgrim)(Excerpt)General interestNigel Watts
Mr. Nakata's garden: making a place in the urban landscape for beauty, breezes, and a few spare roof tiles.General interestRichard Savage
Ms. Authenticity: forget Martha Stewart - Barbara McNally is the real deal.General interestLouise Lague
Music: God rocks.(Mixed Media)General interestKeith Goetzman
My life as a boy: one woman's path to power and freedom.General interestKim Chernin
Nature's own Prozac. (Saint-John's-wort as antidepressant)General interestDana Ullman
No exit. (analysis of American drug culture)General interestDavid Simon, Edward Burns
No job for a grown-up: why I've got to quit being a shrink.General interestGeorge D. Cohen
Notes from nicotine hell: quitting smoking may be hazardous to my health.General interestSusan Shapiro
Nowhere man: confessions of a perpetual foreigner.General interestPico Iyer
Oliver Stone. (media and the current state of society)(Interview)General interestJudith S. Antonelli
One world: the grand illusion.(globalization)(Editorial)General interest 
Outcasts from Eden: environmental diaspora is a looming global crisis.General interestNolan Fell
Out of order. (relation of order of birth to values and attitudes)General interestMiles Harvey
Paging Beijing: there's a new party line in China - and it beeps.General interestMargaret S. Davis
Pensees au lait: France's latest cultural invention - the philosophical cafe - has arrived.General interestJeremy Iggers
Planet of pirates: the manic logic of global capitalism.(world citizens)General interestWilliam Greider
Political healing. (Marianne Williamson and American politics)General interestHelen Cordes
Postcards to Pele: why one Hawaiian deity has her own zip code.(Excerpt)General interestJames Houston
Prisoners of biology: in Nepal, there's no abortion debate, just a life sentence. (includes related article on female mortality during childbirth)General interestJan Goodwin
Quiet cuisine: learning to cook with silence.(Excerpt)General interestBarbara Erakko Taylor
Read my face: portraits of seven women who got out alive.(abused women)General interestVera Anderson
Remote control: how to raise a media skeptic.General interestSusan Douglas
Resurgence of the real: how a new perception of body, nature, and place is transforming the world.General interestCharlene Spretnak
Return to long ago.(reprinted from Winter 1997 issue of Five Points)(Tales of the New Pilgrim)General interestMargaret Livesy
Running with Mary: my thing for the BVM. (Blessed Virgin Mary)General interestJane Russell Simins
Russia gets religion ... and flirts with the new age.General interestIrena Maryniak
Sacred blather: up to here with "holy" hyprocites.(reprinted from Mar/Apr 1997 issue of Common Boundary)General interestMark Matousek
Schooled by Tony: a bruising lesson in compassion.(reprinted from Jan. 22, 1997 issue of The Independent)General interestTito Craige
Shit happens ... and it changed my life.(Excerpt)General interestBonnie Jo Campbell
Slack this! Gen X activists know how to take it to the streets.General interestVan Jones
Son of the morning star. (writer and explorer Sir Laurens van der Post)General interestMickey Lemle
Soul attractions: 10 sites for modern seekers.General interest 
Soul murder: a family matter.General interestDavid Mamet
Soul to soul: for the ancient Celts, friendship was a doorway to the eternal.General interestJohn O'Donohue
Speaking the corn into being.(use of language by the Cherokee)(Excerpt)General interestDiane Glancy
St. Petersburg on 5 million rubles a day.(reprinted from Winter 1997 issue of Salmagundi)General interestCharles Newman
Strangers in uniform. (military and civilian cultures)General interestAmy Waldman
Subversive stargazer.(Rob Brezny)General interestSteven Winn
Suicidal tendencies: will the disabled fall victim to the "right to die?"General interestKathi Wolfe
Tales of the toothpick: the checkered past of "the world's oldest habit."(Gleanings)General interestSue Hubbell
Tales worth telling: searching for stories that challenge our poisonous myths.(Cover Story)General interestJack Zipes
The bard boom: how poetry fell out of the ivory tower. (mainstream acceptance of poetry)(includes related article)General interestJoel Lewis
The Brain Exchange.(New Planet)General interestJo-Ann Johnston
The civility wars: is poverty more vulgar than profanity?General interestDavid Morris
The color of love: feeling my way along the fault line between black and white.(reprinted from spring 1997 issue of DoubleTake)General interestDaniel Stolar
The coming wattage war.(New Planet: Politics)General interestCurt Guyette
The eyes of night: how I was seduced by a gator.(Excerpt)General interestAmy Blackman
The four-wall future.(screening of independent films)General interestDana Harris
The geopolitics of desire: what's the real cost of fee sex in Asia.General interestJohn Winzenburg
The goddess myth: the "golden age" of female divinities was a bad time for women.General interestJudith Antonelli
The greatest story never told. (spirituality in medicine)(includes related article and interview with Albert Ellis)General interestJessica Cohen
The heart of knowing: it's time our schools stopped teaching the divided life.General interestParker J. Palmer
The Kronos Quartet: fiddling with the future.(Interview)General interestSteven Winn
The last time I wore a dress: learning how to be girlie in a psyche ward.General interestDaphne Scholisnki
The lion of Kabul: signs of courage and hope in a ravaged city.General interestChristine Aziz
The many faces of the future: why we'll never have a universal civilization.General interestSamuel P. Huntington
The most human art: ten reasons why we'll always need a good story.(reprinted from Spring 1997 issue of The Georgia Review)General interestScott Russell Sanders
The outlaw sweetener.(stevia)General interestNathaniel Meade
The power of voice: how to tune into life by freeing the song within. (inludes interview with Sweet Honey on the Rock vocalist Ysaye Barnwell)General interestHelen Cordes
The primordial schmooze: was gossip the evolutionary spark for human speech?General interestMiles Harvey
The Procrustean bed: how to avoid one-size-fits-all therapy.General interestMargaret Thaler Singer, Janja Lalich
The queen of cool: Haysun Hahn gets paid to be hipper than the rest of us.General interestAndy Steiner
The Redwood Warrier.(New Planet: Tribute)General interestMark Dowie
The redwood warrior.(New Planet)General interestMark Dowle
The rhythm method: how the power of ritual can transform your relationship to time. (includes related article)General interestDick Dahl, Stephan Rechtschaffen
The secret ingredient: spirit. (eating and spiritual satisfaction)(includes related article)General interestCathy Madison, Deborah Kesten
The seed saviors.(New Planet: World)General interestMinna Morse
The setting of wings: the goose that got away.General interestLynn Levy
The turning of arrival.(Tales of the New Pilgrim)(Excerpt)General interestMichael Wolfe
The urge to hurt: a chilling cry of warning from death row.(reprinted from Mar/Apr 1997 issue of Might)General interestMichael Ross
The vanishing songbirds. (coffee drinkers can help in the reforestation of coffee plantations in South America)General interestPeter Katel
The walking cure: when shoe leather is the best medicine.General interestGregory McNamee
The wheels of Dharma: how do you buy a car you already own?General interestLawrence Shainberg
The wisdom of hopelessness: changing the world one moment at a time.(conversation with Pema Chodron)(Interview)General interestBell Hooks
Thinking, not shrinking: I took my problem to a philosopher.General interestLaura Wexler
To free the world: George Gerbner wants to save us from the global media monopoly.(Interview)General interest 
Waking up with the house of fire. (psychotherapist James Hillman)(Interview)General interestSteve Perry
"We are not the same": real-life lessons from an African chief.(Excerpt)General interestMark Jenkins
What are your ethics?(quiz)(reprinted from April 1997 issue of New Internationalist)General interest 
When a wall calls:should you answer?(reprinted from Winter 1997 issue of Turning Wheel)General interestPatrick McMahon
Wild things: forget deconstruction - today's hippest literary critics have gone green.General interestGregory McNamee
With pens drawn: literature should get dangerous again.(reprinted from May 1997 issue of Prospect)General interestMario Vargas Llosa
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