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- A Civic Duty to Annoy - Wendy Kaminer looks at feminism's automatic reaction of comforting instead of questiong the complaints of women. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/annoy.htm
- A Democrat Who Admits It - James Fallows on Gephardt and his bold economic stance [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/gephardt.htm
- A Grief Like No Other - Americans are fascinated by murders and murderers but not by the families of the people who are killed-an amazingly numerous group, whose members can turn only to one another for sympathy and understanding [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/grief.htm
- A Man From Mars - Arthur Schlesinger Jr. reviews John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/mars.htm
- A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties - The return of Soames [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/teller.htm
- A Subversive Sympathy - a personal look at the life and work of Peter Taylor [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/taylor.htm
- A Taste of Asia - Exploring the Thai country and culture through its cuisine [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/thai.htm
- A Train in Spain - Across northern Spain by rail, from Galicia to the Basque Country [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/spain.htm
- A War That Never Ends - The ongoing debate over the evolution and laws of grammar [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/halpern/halpern.htm
- Abortion in American History - the history of abortion in American society [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/abortion.htm
- All Ireland's Bard - A review by Ireland's contemporary bard of R.F Foster's biography of W.B. Yeats [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/yeats.htm
- Alleycat Couriers - Bicycle messengers are now holding tournaments [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/couriers.htm
- Almanac - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/9712am.htm
- An Audubon in Sound - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/audubon/audubon.htm
- An Underhistory of Mid-Century America - Review of Underworld by Don DeLillo [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97oct/delillo.htm
- And Now for the News - The virtues of Edward Gibon's late 18th century volumes [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/decline/decline.htm
- Artful Restorations - David Linker practices the dying art of ebenisterie. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/ebeniste.htm
- At Last Count - Demographic map of primary-care providers [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/count.htm
- Blinder - Information technology and gains in business productivity [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/tech.htm
- Blood and Motherly Advice - Gregg Easterbrook on the American Forces Network [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97feb/afn/afn.htm
- British Islets - The Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/islets/islets.htm
- Can the Government Prevent Divorce? - Researchers and government seek to prevent bad marriages and mend failing ones [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97oct/divorce.htm
- Chekhov in American - A review of Paul Schmidt's translation of Anton Chekhov's plays. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/chekhov.htm
- China's Strategic Culture - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/china/china.htm
- Citizen 501(c)(3) - Nicholas Lemann dicusses charitable foundations [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97feb/5013c/5013c.htm
- Citrus Preserved - Corby Kummer offers advice and instruction for making marmalade [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/citrus.htm
- Classical Appeal - Artistic compromise and classical music survival [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/classic.htm
- Cosmopolitan - A short story by Akhil Sharma in the January 1997 Atlantic Monthly [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jan/9701fict/sharma.htm
- Cover - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/cover.htm
- Cuba's Entrepreneurial Socialism - Cuba has become a good place to do businessãfor all of but U.S. firms [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jan/cuba/cuba.htm
- De Sade's Daughters - Lee Siegel reviews a number of books on the erotic by female writers [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97feb/desade/desade.htm
- Diamond Nuggets - A funny send-up of baseball and baseball reporting by Roy Blount Jr. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/nuggets.htm
- DNA Fatigue - Blind faith in the power of DNA research may cause a backlash. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/dna.htm
- Evening News - A drawing by Guy Billout [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/billout.htm
- Feminism's Unfinished Business - Katha Pollitt discusses Deborah Rhode's book, Speaking of Sex [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/pollitt.htm
- Finitude - A drawing by Guy Billout [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/billout.htm
- Garlan - What went around came around [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/doggone.htm
- Good News! - The community-based housing movement is transforming bad neighborhoods [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jan/urban/urban.htm
- Green - A drawing by Guy Billout [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/billout.htm
- Hidden Colors - The rubble on one of the few remaining gray blocks near the old Checkpoint Charlie reveals much about what Berlin is losing, and losing fast [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/berlin.htm
- High School and the New Jobs - A review of Richard J. Murname and Frank Levy's book, 'Teaching the New Basic Skills: Principles for Educating Children to Thrive in a Changing Economy' [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/school.htm
- Hiss - A tour across the country via trails once reserved for train travel [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/rails.htm
- History Moving North - As Mexican society fragments, the impact will hit the US with force [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97feb/mexico/mexico.htm
- How Powerful Is Advertising? - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/advert.htm
- How To Rewrite Economic History - Thomas Palley comments on the Boskin Commission's report to Congress [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/econhist.htm
- In a Fishbowl - Anyone can make a bouillabaisse-class soup [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/fishsoup.htm
- In the Monster's Maw - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97feb/catfish/catfish.htm
- Kaplan - Democracy may not be the system that will best serve the world -- or even the one that will prvail in places that now consider themselves bastions of freedom [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/democ.htm
- Keeping the Modern Modern - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97oct/archit.htm
- Kummer - Wines for dessert that are neither cloying nor overwhelming [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/wine.htm
- Late Edition - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/press.htm
- Laws Concerning Food and Drink - A father lays down the law about behavior at the dinner table [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97feb/frazier/frazier.htm
- Maria, Not Callas - In Master Class, Terrace McNally takes a personal look at diva Maria Callas' life and music. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97oct/maria.htm
- moldovascam.com - A complicated case of electronic and telephone fraud suggests just how vulnerable Internet users may be. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/moldova.htm
- More Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser reports on the abuses of the U.S. justice system [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/reef.htm
- Moss - Travel in the Canary Islands [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/islands.htm
- My Race Problem -- And Ours - A consideration of touchy matters -- racial price, racial solidarity, and racial loyalty -- rarely discussed [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/kennedy.htm
- Napoli Ever After - Naples is Italy's most vibrant city -- and now it's clean and safe [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/napoli.htm
- New-Alphabet Disease? - The former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan is in the contentious process of defining national culture in a debate over what its official alphabet should be [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/alphabet.htm
- Noisy Highways - Some inventive ways exist to make barriers along major highways more attractive. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/langdon.htm
- Notes on the Twentieth Century - A European-American who has lived through many of this centuries major traumas reflects, at century's end, on its meaning and lessons [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/century.htm
- Off the Maine Coast - A poet savors the manifold qualities of island life [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/maine.htm
- Peeping in Peace - Spending foliage season in the Canadian Maritime Provinces. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/foliage.htm
- Redeeming the Rake - David Schiff provides a defense of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/rake.htm
- Resurgence of a Deadly Disease - Malaria is becoming more common and more dangerous [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/malaria.htm
- Rough-Terrain Unicycling - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/uni.htm
- Rubin - America notices too late its links to a unique past. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/last.htm
- Running Scared - Politicians are too tied to what the polls say [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jan/scared/scared.htm
- Satan: Hijacker of a Planet - A short story by Louise Erdrich [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/erdrich.htm
- Scaling Alaska's Heights - Within Juneau's city limits are mountains that novices can climb [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97feb/alaska/alaska.htm
- Schwarz - Benjamin Schwarz discusses three new books about the South [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/south.htm
- Scull - Jonathan Scull takes us on a tour of record stores in New York City [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/vinyl.htm
- Secondhand Music - The chance harmonies of everyday sounds may mean more than we think [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/toby.htm
- September 1997 Word Court - Barbara Wallraff arbitrates some grammar debates [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/9709wdct.htm
- Short Circuit - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/billout/billout.htm
- Should English Be the Law? - Robert D. King discusses the debate over making English official [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/english.htm
- Sidebar - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jan/scared/sabato.htm
- Sizer - Review of a book that suggests privatizing education [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97dec/pubsch.htm
- Slam and Jam - frustration among air traffic controllers is growing [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97oct/slam.htm
- Slow Death in the Great Plains - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/populat.htm
- Small Consolation - A short story by Joel Ostrow in the April 1997 Atlantic [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/ostrow.htm
- So Long to Bad Dogs - About dog therapists and dog psychology [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/dogs.htm
- Something in the Water - a visit to scientist P. Gerba and his research in microbial transmission [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/water.htm
- Surveyors of the Enlightenment - A review of Thomas Pyncon's new book, Mason & Dixon [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/pynchon.htm
- The Academy vs. the Humanities - Review of John Ellis's book, Literature Lost [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/academy.htm
- The AIDS Exception: Privacy vs. Public Health - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/burr.htm
- The Atlantic Monthly Looks Ahead to the 21st Century - Freeman J. Dyson on human colonization of space [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/ahead.htm
- The Banks of the Vistula - A short story by Rebecca Lee [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97sep/lee.htm
- The Computer Delusion - Overemphasis on computer education in U.S. schools may be very harmful. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/computer.htm
- The Conservative Line on Race - A book review discussing the history and politics of race in America [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/race.htm
- The Crisis of Electoral Politics - book review of The New American Voter [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/elect.htm
- The Disunited States - Why shifting power from Washington to state governments won't help [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/states.htm
- The Half-Skinned Steer - A short story by E. Annie Proulx [Atlantic Monthly].
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/proulx.htm
- The King Who Sent the Armada - A review of Henry Kamen's book, 'Philip of Spain' [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/armada.htm
- The Laureate as Onlooker - Peter Davison reviews Robert Hass's Sun Under Wood [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/davison/davison.htm
- The Life of Job in Exurbia - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/exurbia.htm
- The Mall of Fame - Rubin looks at the original Hall of Fame [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/rubin.htm
- The Man From Heaven - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/burt.htm
- The Many Faces of Ives - David Schiff looks at how protean Charles Ives remains. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jan/ives/ives.htm
- The Most Eminent Victorian - Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews Roy Jenkins's biography of William Gladstone [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jan/glads/glads.htm
- The Music of Silence - Alain de Brunhoff, concert pianist turned solitary monk [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97oct/silence.htm
- The Near-Myth of Our Failing Schools - The present condition of the schools is far less gloomy than the rhetoric of alarm allows. [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97oct/fail.htm
- The Next Liberalism - Theda Skocpol reviews Rebecca Blank's recent book [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/skocpol.htm
- The Positive Negative - a humor piece by Ian Frazier about regional speech patterns [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/frazier.htm
- The Real Thing - The trend toward simulated experience and growing backlash toward realism [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/real.htm
- The Revolution Upon Us - Lester C. Thurow reviews William Greider's One World Ready or Not [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/greider/greider.htm
- The Roots of War - A review of Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Blood Rites' by Thomas Powers [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/waroots.htm
- The Salsa Sectors - A demographic mapping of U.S. salsa-consumption patterns [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/count.htm
- The Spirit of Cotonou - Cullen Murphy offers some helpful advice to the French [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jan/french/french.htm
- The Widening Gap Between the Military and Society - The alienation of soldiers from mainstream society [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/milisoc.htm
- The Wittgenstein Controversy - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/witt.htm
- The World as Your Oyster - In the World is Your Oyster Atlantic Monthly senior editor [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jan/oyster/oyster.htm
- The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/edelman/edelman.htm
- There Was a Time - A short story by Christina Adam [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97feb/9702fict/adam.htm
- Thin Walls, Bad Neighbors - The unpleasantness of apartment life in Moscow [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/moscow.htm
- This Side of Ultima Thule - Siberia's freezing temperatures are no barrier to social decay [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/siberia.htm
- To Whale or Not to Whale - An annual whaling conference raises questions about whales and other endangered species [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97oct/whale.htm
- Transylvania Today - A travel piece on Transylvania, Romania, by Jeffrey Tayler [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/transyl.htm
- Underground Rome - Study ancient Rome by exploring its cellars and subcellars [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/rome.htm
- Underwater Daredevils - Trying to set records for deepest dive on one breath [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97may/dive.htm
- Vaccinating Against Cancer - Researchers investigate how to force tumors to show their true colors [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97apr/cancer.htm
- Vigilance - What's a dad to do in a world of sharp corners? [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/cimino/cimino.htm
- Visitations - The graveyards of a lifetime [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/cemetery.htm
- Vista - A drawing by Guy Billout [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/billout.htm
- Welding With Children - A short story by Tim Gautreax in the March 1997 Atlantic Monthly [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/9703fict/gautreau.htm
- What Jefferson Helps to Explain - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/jeffer/jeffer.htm
- Whatever Happened to Integration? - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97feb/integ.htm
- White Snow, Red Rocks - Exploring the many facets of Sedona, Arizona [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97oct/sedona.htm
- Whose Right To Die? - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97mar/emanuel/emanuel.htm
- Word Court - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/9707wdct.htm
- Word Court - Barbara Wallraff answers readers language-usage questions [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97nov/9711wdct.htm
- Word Improvisation -- Money Talks - [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/9706imp.htm
- Word Watch - newly coined words [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/9708wtch.htm
- Zoot! - An article about computer shareware by James Fallows [Atlantic Monthly]
www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97aug/zoot.htm
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