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May 1987

CONTENTS
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	Illustration The board room By Guy Johnson SEE ALSO: Executives PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Article The last stop By Millard Milburn Rice On Lost in another Honduras. Of bordelllos and bad scenes, from October 1986: Letter By Francisco Goldman On Ideas against torture, from November 1986: Letter By Vinko Kuzina Letter By Marija Ann Levic On A higher horror of the whiteness. Cocaine's coloring of the American psyche, from December 1986: Letter By Robert M. Howe III Letter By James O. Jones SEE ALSO: Aged; Last years; Rice, Millard Milburn; Old age homes PDF IMAGES
8-11	Notebook/Article Fade to black By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Executive power; 1945-1989; Reagan, Ronald; Staff PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-18	Readings/Article Nuclear power's Faustian bargain By Erazim V. Kohák SEE ALSO: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986; Consumption (Economics); Nuclear energy PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Nuclear times SEE ALSO: Nuclear reactor accidents; Nuclear warfare; Radioactive pollution PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Campbell's primordial soup By Fred Schmugge SEE ALSO: Canned foods; Life; Origin PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) in mass media; Obscene words; Sex in mass media PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Pissing contests SEE ALSO: Analysis; Drug testing; Examination; Urination; Urine PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Death for drug traffickers under Malaysian law SEE ALSO: Legal status, laws, etc.; Malaysia; Narcotic laws; Narcotics, Control of; Narcotics dealers; Posters PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Help us keep Malaysia drug free SEE ALSO: Malaysia; Narcotics, Control of; Posters PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article The CIA sizes up the Mexican domino SEE ALSO: Government, Resistance to; 1970-1988; Political stability PDF IMAGES
22-25	Readings/Article The artist and AIDS By Edmund White SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) and the arts; Artists; Gay men PDF IMAGES Readings/Graphs and Charts Supreme queries SEE ALSO: Charts, diagrams, etc.; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Photo Drawing on the land By Marilyn Bridges (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aerial photographs; Alsop, Christopher; Landscape PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Poem Homer's “Iliad,” updated By Christopher Logue PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Review Useful Zulu phrases By Lynn Freed SEE ALSO: Conversation and phrase books; Domestics; South Africa PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Collection Readings By Margarita Azurdia PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Mujeres en armes By Margarita Azurdia SEE ALSO: Mothers in art; Sculpture, Guatemalan PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration El cocodrilo By Margarita Azurdia SEE ALSO: Sculpture, Guatemalan PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Poem Give me a nickname, prison By Irina Ratushinskaëiìa, Frances Padorr Brent (Trans.), and Carol Avins (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction I know what I'm doing By Frank Gannon PDF IMAGES
30-31	Readings/Fiction Not-so-silent sea By John Hersey PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo Susan and Blaze, San Francisco (1986) By Todd Merrill (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Kitchens; San Francisco PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The making of the president By Gore Vidal PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Collection Readings By Tseng Kwong Chi (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Tseng Kwong Chi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.); Communists PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Tseng Kwong Chi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.); Communists PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Article Never mind SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Corrections; Holmes, Johnny; Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Beheading; Dog owners; Human-animal relationships PDF IMAGES
35-45	Article The next panic. Fear and trembling on Wall Street By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Financial crises; 1981-; Stock exchanges PDF IMAGES
47-52	Article Endless summer of love. Goa: Wildlife preserve for the endangered hippie By David Black SEE ALSO: Hippies; Velha Goa (India); Visitors, Foreign PDF IMAGES
53-57	Article The beat goes off. How technology has gummed up rock's grooves By Mark Hunter SEE ALSO: Presley, Elvis; Like a virgin (Sound recording); Madonna; Redding, Otis; Production and direction; Recording and reproducing; Rock music; Sound; Sound recording industry; The best of Otis Redding (Sound recording); The Sun sessions (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article Betting too big on the blood. The thoroughbred breeding bubble, boom to burst By Carol Flake SEE ALSO: Breeding; Horse farms; Horses; Thoroughbred horse PDF IMAGES
60-64	Fiction Snares By Louise Erdrich PDF IMAGES
66-69	Article Cultivating virtue. Compost and its moral imperatives By Michael Pollan SEE ALSO: Compost; Gardening; Horticultural literature; Philosophy of nature PDF IMAGES
70-72	Article Perils of policy. The Marshall Plan only worked once By William Pfaff SEE ALSO: Economic assistance, American; Marshall Plan; 1945-1989 PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 53 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department May tricks By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES