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September 1982

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	Illustration [Cover art] By David Suter SEE ALSO: Microscopes PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Turn on, tune in, drop dead, from July 1982: Letter By Joan Saunders Wixen Letter By Donald W. McKinney Letter By Major Thomas and R.N. Letter By Ron Rosenbaum On The Lord and the intellectuals, from July 1982: Letter By Bruce O. Boston Letter By James B. Allis Letter By Rev. Msgr. A.V. McLees On The word police, from June 1982: Letter By Edwin Newman PDF IMAGES
8-17	Capitalism observed/Article Rich doctors, poor nurses: Testing our notions about a fair day's pay By David (David E.) Osborne SEE ALSO: Health care reform; Nurses PDF IMAGES
17-20	Article Baggage: The $310 million paranoia subsidy By Patrick Brogan SEE ALSO: Aeronautics, Commercial; Airports; Hijacking of aircraft; Security measures; United States. Federal Aviation Administration PDF IMAGES
22-24	Article Warfare: Simple tanks would suffice By William S. Lind SEE ALSO: Falkland Islands War, 1982; Israeli intervention, 1982-1984; Lebanon; Military planning; Military policy PDF IMAGES
25-31	The fourth estate/Article The gossip's code: Rule 2 By Diana McLellan SEE ALSO: Gossip; Gossip columns PDF IMAGES
32-46	Article Waiting for interferon: What happens when people's hopes run ahead of the scientific method By Charles Fox SEE ALSO: Drugs; Testing PDF IMAGES
47	Designs for living/Cartoon Reaction SEE ALSO: Parent and child PDF IMAGES
48-49	Article Supply-side economics goes to the zoo: It's dog eat dog among the animals in Cairo By Jean-Claude Suarès SEE ALSO: Cairo; Egypt; Supply-side economics; Zoos PDF IMAGES
50-55	Fiction A tomb with a view: A story By Paul Theroux SEE ALSO: Detective and mystery stories; Diplomatic and consular service, American PDF IMAGES
56-66	Article Too much justice: Why it took fifteen months and millions of dollars not to send John Hinckley to prison By Stuart Taylor SEE ALSO: Assassination attempt, 1981; Assassins; Insanity; Hinckley, John W.; Jurisprudence; Reagan, Ronald; Trials (Assassination); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
67-69	Palpitations/Review Stop me before I write again: Six hundred more pages by Joyce Carol Oates By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: A Bloodsmoor romance (Book); Oates, Joyce Carol; Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
70-74	Books/Review Who was that mass man, anyway? What émigré intellectuals like Hannah Arendt don't understand about America By Robert Asahina SEE ALSO: Biography; Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth; Germans; Arendt, Hannah; Hannah Arendt, for love of the world (Book); Immigrants; Women intellectuals PDF IMAGES
74	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Richards, Earl Jeffrey; 15th century; Utopias; Women's rights; Christine, de Pisan PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By R.M. K. SEE ALSO: Hart, Jeffrey Peter; 1953-1961; Nineteen fifties; When the going was good!: American life in the fifties (Book) PDF IMAGES
75	Article Negligible literary anecdotes no. 6 By John Morressy SEE ALSO: Authors, Russian; Humor; Tolstoy, Leo, graf PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Fisher, M.F.K. (Mary Frances Kennedy); Not now but now: a novel (Book); Reincarnation; Time travel PDF IMAGES
76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. B. SEE ALSO: American assassins: the darker side of politics (Book); Assassination attempts; Assassins; Clarke, James W. PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By T. G. SEE ALSO: Family happiness: a novel (Book); Colwin, Laurie PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Bar hopping By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES