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November 1986

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration You always complain and then you come back and kiss me again By Jorge Salazar SEE ALSO: Monsters PDF IMAGES
4-75	Letters/Department Letters On Wanton acts of usage. Terrorism, from September 1986: Letter By Marian H. Neudel Letter By Tony Proscio Letter By David Warren PDF IMAGES
8-9	Notebook/Article Social hygiene By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Narcotics, Control of; Social policy PDF IMAGES
9	Notebook/Notice Notebook By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-15	Readings/Article The military: A loose cannon? By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Arms race; Cold War; Military policy; Nuclear warfare PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986; Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Article In case of crash SEE ALSO: Bank failures; Deposit insurance PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Scam lines SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Deceptive advertising; Petroleum industry and trade; Telephone selling PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Song “You'll see I'm right about saying no” SEE ALSO: Sexual abstinence; Songs and music; Tatiana and Johnny (Musical group) PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Dating (Social customs) PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Perceiving Soviet change By Stephen F. Cohen SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, American; Social change PDF IMAGES
20-23	Readings/Article No! to the civil patrol By Jean-Marie Simon SEE ALSO: Government, Resistance to; Guatemala; Indians of Central America; Insurgency PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Ideas against torture By Milovan Djilas and Michael Boro Petrovich (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Mental health; Prisoners; Torture; Torture victims PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Playing for keeps SEE ALSO: Football players; Rules; Weapons PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Teacher and plagiarist By Neil Hertz SEE ALSO: Originality in literature; Plagiarism; Student ethics; Teacher-student relationships PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article In boxing's defense By Ronald Levao SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Boxers (Sports); Boxing; Ali, Muhammad PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article TV's ironic age By Mark Crispin Miller SEE ALSO: Television programs; Television viewers PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Veruschka (Photog.) and Holger Trülzsch (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Forests and forestry; Mosses PDF IMAGES
32-36	Readings/Fiction Blue ground By Carolyn See PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Photo Bega, still life with peppers By Sheila Metzner (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Poem Hymn By John Updike PDF IMAGES
39-46	Collection Notes in an interplanetary bottle PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES
40	Article [Untitled Article] By Carl Sagan SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Vasiliæi Pavlovich Aksenov SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Gregory Benford SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES
41	Article What to do when the martians come SEE ALSO: Adaptations; Wells, H.G. (Herbert George); Welles, Orson; Radio audiences; The war of the worlds (Book); War of the worlds (Radio program) PDF IMAGES
42	Article [Untitled Article] By William S. Burroughs SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Ed Koch SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES Article A message from Earth: I SEE ALSO: Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES
43	Article [Untitled Article] By Robert A. Nisbet SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By John Ivan Simon SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES Article A message from Earth: II SEE ALSO: Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES
44	Illustration The Middleton family at the New York World's Fair SEE ALSO: Comic books, strips, etc.; Time capsules PDF IMAGES
45-46	Article [Untitled Article] By Auberon Waugh SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES Quotation A really splendid war By Gore Vidal SEE ALSO: Human-alien encounters PDF IMAGES
46	Article [Untitled Article] By David Byrne SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Human-alien encounters; Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES
47-52	Article A new language for the left. Translating the conservative discourse By Benjamin R. Barber SEE ALSO: 1981-1989; Political oratory; Progressivism (United States politics); Right and left (Political science) PDF IMAGES
54-57	Article Faint light, dark print. Roy Cohn, AIDS and the question of privacy By Dale Van Atta SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) in mass media; Bethesda; Death; Health; Hospital records; Journalistic ethics; Patients; Privacy, Right of; Cohn, Roy M. PDF IMAGES
58-65	Article Teacher. The making of a good one By John Barth SEE ALSO: Career as college teacher; Career as high school teacher; Barth, John; Marriage; Barth, Shelly; Teacher-student relationships; Teachers PDF IMAGES
66-68	Fiction Dreams of distant lives By Lee K. Abbott PDF IMAGES
69-71	Readings/Review Childhood found, weight lost. Two books on the lam from genre By Stanley W. Lindberg SEE ALSO: Mountain blood (Book); Watson, Richard A.; The philosopher's diet: how to lose weight and change the world (Book); Baker, Will PDF IMAGES
72-73	Article Le break dance? Jamais de la vie! Protecting the purity of French By David Zane Mairowitz SEE ALSO: Americanisms; Foreign words and phrases; French language; Language purism PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 47 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Vicious circles By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES