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Mideast Oil Forever?
 Research programs supported by the federal government have made important breakthroughs in renewable-energy and environmental technologies--technologies that could lessen our dependence on imported oil, reduce pollution, and give America the lead in a vital new industrial sector. Congress is on the verge of throwing all this away. by Joseph J. Romm and Charles B. Curtis
An American
RequiemThe father: an Air Force general, one of the nation's top intelligence officers, a man of power whose belief in the world of hierarchy was total. The son: newly ordained, celebrating his first mass, mounting the pulpit to speak as a priest. The time: the height of the Vietnam War. A memoir. by James Carroll |
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Reports Notes & Comment: Kicking in Groups The political scientist Robert Putnam's much-publicized contention that America's communal culture is in a state of decline is open to argument on both theoretical and factual grounds. by Nicholas Lemann Foreign Affairs: In a Chinese Orphanage Behind the terrible conditions in Chinese orphanages lie problems little appreciated in the West--on some of which the West could offer guidance. by Anne F. Thurston Personal File: "It's Lew, Babe, Just Lew" Taking charge of my husband's career. by Lynn Caraganis Fiction & Poetry On Pickiness A poem by Rodney Jones Junior A short story by Elizabeth Stuckey-French My Place A poem by Stephen Sandy Oasis A drawing by Guy Billout
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Arts & Leisure Travel: The Old Made New In once-forlorn eastern Germany, our correspondent finds, the Cold War torpor is beginning to disappear. by R. W. Apple Jr. Computers: Navigating the Galaxies New ways of indexing and presenting information might help to tame the Internet's unmanageable sprawl. by James Fallows Food: Nuts I Love Not all hazelnuts taste alike, the author learns after conducting a worldwide search, but they all make chocolate taste better. by Corby Kummer Books "To Work Is to Live Without Dying" Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke by Ralph Freedman by Lee Siegel Right, Here Goes Therapy, by David Lodge by Scott Stossel Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams Other Departments 745 Boylston Street Contributors Letters (Send a letter to the editor.) The April Almanac Word Watch by Anne H. Soukhanov |
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