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High Resolution, Unresolved - [Atlantic Monthly]
Recipe for a Depression - [Atlantic Monthly]
Gap Politics - [Atlantic Monthly]
Express Yourself: It's Later Than You Think - [Atlantic Monthly]
Welcome to Our Tomb - [Atlantic Monthly]
Germania Irredenta - [Atlantic Monthly]
Spring - [Atlantic Monthly]
Buffed and Polished - [Atlantic Monthly]
Like Young - [Atlantic Monthly]
Living-Room Galleries - [Atlantic Monthly]
The Latest Fashion in Irrationality - [Atlantic Monthly]
Robert Penn McInerney - [Atlantic Monthly]
How To Rewrite Economic History - Thomas Palley comments on the Boskin Commission's report to Congress [Atlantic Monthly]
Should English Be the Law? - Robert D. King discusses the debate over making English official [Atlantic Monthly]
Vaccinating Against Cancer - Researchers investigate how to force tumors to show their true colors [Atlantic Monthly]
More Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser reports on the abuses of the U.S. justice system [Atlantic Monthly]
Secondhand Music - The chance harmonies of everyday sounds may mean more than we think [Atlantic Monthly]
Citrus Preserved - Corby Kummer offers advice and instruction for making marmalade [Atlantic Monthly]
Artful Restorations - David Linker practices the dying art of ebenisterie. [Atlantic Monthly]
This Side of Ultima Thule - Siberia's freezing temperatures are no barrier to social decay [Atlantic Monthly]
Small Consolation - A short story by Joel Ostrow in the April 1997 Atlantic [Atlantic Monthly]
Underground Rome - Study ancient Rome by exploring its cellars and subcellars [Atlantic Monthly]
Rough-Terrain Unicycling - [Atlantic Monthly]
A Man From Mars - Arthur Schlesinger Jr. reviews John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. [Atlantic Monthly]
The Next Liberalism - Theda Skocpol reviews Rebecca Blank's recent book [Atlantic Monthly]
Resurgence of a Deadly Disease - Malaria is becoming more common and more dangerous [Atlantic Monthly]
Satan: Hijacker of a Planet - A short story by Louise Erdrich [Atlantic Monthly]
Classical Appeal - Artistic compromise and classical music survival [Atlantic Monthly]
Diamond Nuggets - A funny send-up of baseball and baseball reporting by Roy Blount Jr. [Atlantic Monthly]
The Real Thing - The trend toward simulated experience and growing backlash toward realism [Atlantic Monthly]
Word Watch - newly coined words [Atlantic Monthly]
Noisy Highways - Some inventive ways exist to make barriers along major highways more attractive. [Atlantic Monthly]
Napoli Ever After - Naples is Italy's most vibrant city -- and now it's clean and safe [Atlantic Monthly]
Zoot! - An article about computer shareware by James Fallows [Atlantic Monthly]
The King Who Sent the Armada - A review of Henry Kamen's book, 'Philip of Spain' [Atlantic Monthly]
The Roots of War - A review of Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Blood Rites' by Thomas Powers [Atlantic Monthly]
The Academy vs. the Humanities - Review of John Ellis's book, Literature Lost [Atlantic Monthly]
Citizen 501(c)(3) - Nicholas Lemann dicusses charitable foundations [Atlantic Monthly]
Whatever Happened to Integration? - [Atlantic Monthly]
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]
Garlan - What went around came around [Atlantic Monthly]
The Widening Gap Between the Military and Society - The alienation of soldiers from mainstream society [Atlantic Monthly]
Blinder - Information technology and gains in business productivity [Atlantic Monthly]
Rubin - America notices too late its links to a unique past. [Atlantic Monthly]
Hiss - A tour across the country via trails once reserved for train travel [Atlantic Monthly]
Moss - Travel in the Canary Islands [Atlantic Monthly]
Scull - Jonathan Scull takes us on a tour of record stores in New York City [Atlantic Monthly]
Kummer - Wines for dessert that are neither cloying nor overwhelming [Atlantic Monthly]
Schwarz - Benjamin Schwarz discusses three new books about the South [Atlantic Monthly]
Sizer - Review of a book that suggests privatizing education [Atlantic Monthly]
At Last Count - Demographic map of primary-care providers [Atlantic Monthly]
The Many Faces of Ives - David Schiff looks at how protean Charles Ives remains. [Atlantic Monthly]
Blood and Motherly Advice - Gregg Easterbrook on the American Forces Network [Atlantic Monthly]
Laws Concerning Food and Drink - A father lays down the law about behavior at the dinner table [Atlantic Monthly]
In the Monster's Maw - [Atlantic Monthly]
History Moving North - As Mexican society fragments, the impact will hit the US with force [Atlantic Monthly]
Welding With Children - A short story by Tim Gautreax in the March 1997 Atlantic Monthly [Atlantic Monthly]
There Was a Time - A short story by Christina Adam [Atlantic Monthly]
Scaling Alaska's Heights - Within Juneau's city limits are mountains that novices can climb [Atlantic Monthly]
De Sade's Daughters - Lee Siegel reviews a number of books on the erotic by female writers [Atlantic Monthly]
Running Scared - Politicians are too tied to what the polls say [Atlantic Monthly]
Sidebar - [Atlantic Monthly]
The Spirit of Cotonou - Cullen Murphy offers some helpful advice to the French [Atlantic Monthly]
The World as Your Oyster - In the World is Your Oyster Atlantic Monthly senior editor [Atlantic Monthly]
Cuba's Entrepreneurial Socialism - Cuba has become a good place to do businessãfor all of but U.S. firms [Atlantic Monthly]
Good News! - The community-based housing movement is transforming bad neighborhoods [Atlantic Monthly]
Cosmopolitan - A short story by Akhil Sharma in the January 1997 Atlantic Monthly [Atlantic Monthly]
The Most Eminent Victorian - Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews Roy Jenkins's biography of William Gladstone [Atlantic Monthly]
The Computer Delusion - Overemphasis on computer education in U.S. schools may be very harmful. [Atlantic Monthly]
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]
Word Court - [Atlantic Monthly]
The Mall of Fame - Rubin looks at the original Hall of Fame [Atlantic Monthly]
Visitations - The graveyards of a lifetime [Atlantic Monthly]
Finitude - A drawing by Guy Billout [Atlantic Monthly]
A Train in Spain - Across northern Spain by rail, from Galicia to the Basque Country [Atlantic Monthly]
Alleycat Couriers - Bicycle messengers are now holding tournaments [Atlantic Monthly]
Surveyors of the Enlightenment - A review of Thomas Pyncon's new book, Mason & Dixon [Atlantic Monthly]
Chekhov in American - A review of Paul Schmidt's translation of Anton Chekhov's plays. [Atlantic Monthly]
The AIDS Exception: Privacy vs. Public Health - [Atlantic Monthly]
Word Improvisation -- Money Talks - [Atlantic Monthly]
The Man From Heaven - [Atlantic Monthly]
The Positive Negative - a humor piece by Ian Frazier about regional speech patterns [Atlantic Monthly]
The Wittgenstein Controversy - [Atlantic Monthly]
Slow Death in the Great Plains - [Atlantic Monthly]
Late Edition - [Atlantic Monthly]
Transylvania Today - A travel piece on Transylvania, Romania, by Jeffrey Tayler [Atlantic Monthly]
The Life of Job in Exurbia - [Atlantic Monthly]
How Powerful Is Advertising? - [Atlantic Monthly]
The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done - [Atlantic Monthly]
Whose Right To Die? - [Atlantic Monthly]
A War That Never Ends - The ongoing debate over the evolution and laws of grammar [Atlantic Monthly]
What Jefferson Helps to Explain - [Atlantic Monthly]
And Now for the News - The virtues of Edward Gibon's late 18th century volumes [Atlantic Monthly]
Vigilance - What's a dad to do in a world of sharp corners? [Atlantic Monthly]
Short Circuit - [Atlantic Monthly]
British Islets - The Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands [Atlantic Monthly]
An Audubon in Sound - [Atlantic Monthly]
The Revolution Upon Us - Lester C. Thurow reviews William Greider's One World Ready or Not [Atlantic Monthly]
The Laureate as Onlooker - Peter Davison reviews Robert Hass's Sun Under Wood [Atlantic Monthly]
China's Strategic Culture - [Atlantic Monthly]
So Long to Bad Dogs - About dog therapists and dog psychology [Atlantic Monthly]
My Race Problem -- And Ours - A consideration of touchy matters -- racial price, racial solidarity, and racial loyalty -- rarely discussed [Atlantic Monthly]
Abortion in American History - the history of abortion in American society [Atlantic Monthly]
The Disunited States - Why shifting power from Washington to state governments won't help [Atlantic Monthly]
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]
Green - A drawing by Guy Billout [Atlantic Monthly]
Off the Maine Coast - A poet savors the manifold qualities of island life [Atlantic Monthly]
Underwater Daredevils - Trying to set records for deepest dive on one breath [Atlantic Monthly]
The Crisis of Electoral Politics - book review of The New American Voter [Atlantic Monthly]
The Salsa Sectors - A demographic mapping of U.S. salsa-consumption patterns [Atlantic Monthly]
The Atlantic Monthly Looks Ahead to the 21st Century - Freeman J. Dyson on human colonization of space [Atlantic Monthly]
Word Court - Barbara Wallraff answers readers language-usage questions [Atlantic Monthly]
DNA Fatigue - Blind faith in the power of DNA research may cause a backlash. [Atlantic Monthly]
A Democrat Who Admits It - James Fallows on Gephardt and his bold economic stance [Atlantic Monthly]
A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties - The return of Soames [Atlantic Monthly]
Thin Walls, Bad Neighbors - The unpleasantness of apartment life in Moscow [Atlantic Monthly]
Vista - A drawing by Guy Billout [Atlantic Monthly]
The Half-Skinned Steer - A short story by E. Annie Proulx [Atlantic Monthly].
A Taste of Asia - Exploring the Thai country and culture through its cuisine [Atlantic Monthly]
Redeeming the Rake - David Schiff provides a defense of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress [Atlantic Monthly]
The Conservative Line on Race - A book review discussing the history and politics of race in America [Atlantic Monthly]
All Ireland's Bard - A review by Ireland's contemporary bard of R.F Foster's biography of W.B. Yeats [Atlantic Monthly]
Feminism's Unfinished Business - Katha Pollitt discusses Deborah Rhode's book, Speaking of Sex [Atlantic Monthly]
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]
Maria, Not Callas - In Master Class, Terrace McNally takes a personal look at diva Maria Callas' life and music. [Atlantic Monthly]
Slam and Jam - frustration among air traffic controllers is growing [Atlantic Monthly]
To Whale or Not to Whale - An annual whaling conference raises questions about whales and other endangered species [Atlantic Monthly]
Can the Government Prevent Divorce? - Researchers and government seek to prevent bad marriages and mend failing ones [Atlantic Monthly]
The Music of Silence - Alain de Brunhoff, concert pianist turned solitary monk [Atlantic Monthly]
White Snow, Red Rocks - Exploring the many facets of Sedona, Arizona [Atlantic Monthly]
Keeping the Modern Modern - [Atlantic Monthly]
An Underhistory of Mid-Century America - Review of Underworld by Don DeLillo [Atlantic Monthly]
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]
September 1997 Word Court - Barbara Wallraff arbitrates some grammar debates [Atlantic Monthly]
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]
moldovascam.com - A complicated case of electronic and telephone fraud suggests just how vulnerable Internet users may be. [Atlantic Monthly]
A Civic Duty to Annoy - Wendy Kaminer looks at feminism's automatic reaction of comforting instead of questiong the complaints of women. [Atlantic Monthly]
Something in the Water - a visit to scientist P. Gerba and his research in microbial transmission [Atlantic Monthly]
The Banks of the Vistula - A short story by Rebecca Lee [Atlantic Monthly]
Evening News - A drawing by Guy Billout [Atlantic Monthly]
Peeping in Peace - Spending foliage season in the Canadian Maritime Provinces. [Atlantic Monthly]
In a Fishbowl - Anyone can make a bouillabaisse-class soup [Atlantic Monthly]
A Subversive Sympathy - a personal look at the life and work of Peter Taylor [Atlantic Monthly]
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]
Cover - [Atlantic Monthly]
Almanac - [Atlantic Monthly]
Children and Money - How to teach your children about money [Atlantic Monthly]
Cover - [Atlantic Monthly]
Dazzling White Nights - Traveling to the St. Petersburg summer music festival [Atlantic Monthly]
The Trouble With Single-Sex Schools - A Smith graduate argues that proponents of single-sex education greatly overstate its practical advantages. [Atlantic Monthly]
Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter - A short story by Chitra B. Divakaruni [Atlantic Monthly]
An Eye for Anomaly - Marshall Jon Fisher depicts Rosamond Purcell, goddess of weird. [Atlantic Monthly]
Three New Revelations About LBJ - New insight is given to the behind-the-scenes-presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson [Atlantic Monthly]
America Right and Left - A look at the shift of power which has occurred between the Republican and Democratic parties, and the policies that attributed that shift. [Atlantic Monthly]
The Horror - [Atlantic Monthly]
Word Watch - A selection of terms newly coined [Atlantic Monthly]
The Torch and the Hearth - A review of Stephen Pyne's Vestal Fire [Atlantic Monthly]
Pesto - During his travels in Liguria, Italy, Corby Kummer discovers the secrets to making authentic pesto with ease back in the States [Atlantic Monthly]
'Invent Radium or I'll Pull Your Hair' - Doris Schmitz narrates her youth and final liberation from her mother [Atlantic Monthly]
'Road Rage' Versus Reality - Road rage is not the problem the media would have us believe. [Atlantic Monthly]
Today Is Sunday - Peter Ho Davies explores the relationships between children and their aging parents in this short story [Atlantic Monthly]
Hoods Against Democrats - Robert Kaplan describes organized crime in Bulgaria, which is struggling to stabilize its young democracy [Atlantic Monthly]
America's Maginot Line - Advances in military technology threaten American military supremacy in Asia [Atlantic Monthly]
Back to Basics - Cullen Murphy's ideas for political reform. [Atlantic Monthly]
Neshering - The adventures of riding a Nesher cab through Jerusalem [Atlantic Monthly]
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? - Shirley, a former CIA operative, describes a decline in the Agency's spying power over the last few decades [Atlantic Monthly]
Not Singing Too Much - Thinking of the pianist, singer, and lyricist Dave Frishberg as the Woody Allen of song captures only part of him. [Atlantic Monthly]
All Things, All at Once - A short story by Lee K. Abbot [Atlantic Monthly]
The Thread of Time - On Madeleine Albright's unawareness of her Jewish background [Atlantic Monthly]
When Is a Planet Not a Planet? - Debate whether Pluto should be included among the planets [Atlantic Monthly]
A Means of Transport - What it's like to ride the metro in Moscow [Atlantic Monthly]
Inside Anatolia - A journey into the Asian heartland of Turkey gives a view of the country not yet spoiled by tourist influences. [Atlantic Monthly]
A Star-Making Performance - The actor Alan Rickman's finest role [Atlantic Monthly]
A Thriller With Something on Its Mind - Martin Amis is teetering on the edge of profundity [Atlantic Monthly]
The Great Climate Flip-flop - William H. Calvin discusses the consequences of global warming and other climate issues [Atlantic Monthly]
Toward a Global Open Society - The author seeks improvement in the expanding global market. [Atlantic Monthly]
Sitting In - Whitney Balliett switches his pen for the sticks on the QE2 [Atlantic Monthly]
A Greece to Be Discovered - Travels to out-of-the-way sites in Greece [Atlantic Monthly]
It's Radi-O! - Richard Rubin praises radio, the most intimate of media. [Atlantic Monthly]
Changing the World on a Shoestring - Innovations toward a global society through social entrepreneurship [Atlantic Monthly]
A Writer Who Is Good for You - Jane Austen's modern importance [Atlantic Monthly]
The Socialist Who Loved Keats - The author discusses the influence of Irving Howe, a prominent literary and social critic. [Atlantic Monthly]
Hymn - A white parishoner's reflections on attending a black church [Atlantic Monthly]
A Republic - Senator Lieberman argues for campaign-finance reform [Atlantic Monthly]
Dark Passage - The author goes caving in California [Atlantic Monthly]
The Danger of Space Junk - Orbital debris poses a serious threat to spacecraft [Atlantic Monthly]
Sculptures in Leather - Carved leather saddles from Sheridan, Wyoming are artwork [Atlantic Monthly]
Nine Misconceptions About Social Security - Conventional wisdom is wrong about the state of Social Security [Atlantic Monthly]
Autumn Becomes Ireland - This American professor says Ireland is the ideal fall vacation destination [Atlantic Monthly]
The Voice of Economic Nationalism - Eyal Press reviews Buchanan's book, The Great Betrayal [Atlantic Monthly]
More Is Less - A review of Robert Hellenga's The Fall of a Sparrow [Atlantic Monthly]
At Last Count - You're being watched from all directions in New York City [Atlantic Monthly]
A Good Climate for Investment - Environmental climate protection could create a surge of economic growth. [Atlantic Monthly]
That Was Me On TV - Roy Blount on his talk show experiences. [Atlantic Monthly]
The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism - Behind Japan's economic crisis lurks a social one [Atlantic Monthly]
Moving the Bell - History and future of the Liberty Bell and Independence Mall [Atlantic Monthly]
Beyond Prague - James Fallows describes his travels in the Czech Republic [Atlantic Monthly]
Discovering Young Poets - A review of the Yale Younger Poets Anthology [Atlantic Monthly]
How McKinley Begot Franco - Review of books about Cuba, Spain, and the U.S. [Atlantic Monthly]
At Last Count - Demographic map of phone traffic from the U.S. [Atlantic Monthly]
Cover - [Atlantic Monthly]
Lewis and Clark and Us - Following Lewis and Clark's trail makes a fine family vacation [Atlantic Monthly]
Back From Chaos - A contemporary consilience of knowledge is called for [Atlantic Monthly]
Today's Most Mischievous Misquotation - Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say [Atlantic Monthly]
Tree Surfing and Other Lofty Pleasures - Serious tree climbing. [Atlantic Monthly]
Belgian and Bubbly - A look at Belgian-style beer which includes descriptions of the tastes and the brewing process [Atlantic Monthly]
War in the Mind - Post-traumatic stress syndrome, Vietnam, and the Civil War [Atlantic Monthly]
How to Pay for a Good College - A new look at the games that college aid and admission boards play [Atlantic Monthly]
Photography in the Age of Falsification - Nature photographers face a crisis of ethics as digital imaging makes photo fakery easier than ever [Atlantic Monthly]
The Case Against Biligual Education - Why even Latino parents are rejecting bilingual education [Atlantic Monthly]
Listening to St. John's Wort - About St. John's Wort [Atlantic Monthly]
The Oasis of Memory - Thoughts about memory and nomadism in the present day [Atlantic Monthly]
New England Places - Atlantic editors on their favorite places in New England [Atlantic Monthly]
Insidious Weakness - Book review of Roy Reed's FAUBUS: The Life of an American Prodigal [Atlantic Monthly]
A Fictional Portrait of John Brown - McPherson reviews Russell Banks' fictional account of John Brown [Atlantic Monthly]
"Ready, Read!" - How to Revive a Failing Educational System [Atlantic Monthly]
Corn Bread When I'm Hungry - The revival of the music of Dock Boggs [Atlantic Monthly]
Richard Hofstadter's Tradition - Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition is still an important work of history, fifty years after it was first published [Atlantic Monthly]
Anticipation - An essay by Cullen Murphy in The Atlantic Monthly [Atlantic Monthly]
Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain - The struggle to create a modern role for the country's imperial family [Atlantic Monthly]
The Lovely, Lovely- - The author describes an older woman's aging. [Atlantic Monthly]
Journalism Today - An essay in The Atlantic Monthly by Ian Frazier. [Atlantic Monthly]
Saturday Night at the Haçienda - Post-Industrial Manchester, England -- a drug and music scene [Atlantic Monthly]
Misunderstanding Gershwin - Popular misunderstandings of the American composer George Gershwin [Atlantic Monthly]
The Hidden Side of the Clinton Economy - the 90's economy and the struggling american household [Atlantic Monthly]
Should Election Day Be a Holiday? - A potential solution for low turnouts on American Election Days [Atlantic Monthly]
Could Mad-Cow Disease Happen Here? - Is the U.S. govt. doing enough to prevent mad-cow disease? [Atlantic Monthly]
Tuscan Tomatoes - Variations on panzanella, a traditional Tuscan dish [Atlantic Monthly]
Swing and Sensibility - A look back at Frank Sinatra's music and career [Atlantic Monthly]
The Time Has Come - [Atlantic Monthly]
The Fulcrum of Europe - Romania yearns for inclusion by the West which, due its location between Europe and the Middle East and its adaptibility to disparate political structures, is in our best interest to give [Atlantic Monthly]
Poor but Prosperous - Karala, India is an impoverished but very well run state [Atlantic Monthly]
At Last Count - Where in America the elderly will be in 2015 [Atlantic Monthly]

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