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August 1996

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	Photo [Cover art] By Rick Friedman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Balloons; Political conventions PDF IMAGES
4-78	Letters/Department Letters On The swastikas of Niketown, from April 1996: Letter By George V. Zito On Our next race question, from April 1996: Letter By Luis E. Diaz-Perez Letter By Joseph Erasto Jaramillo Letter By Robert Hinton Letter By Aaron Friedman On Does America still work? On the turbulent energies of the new capitalism, from May 1996: Letter By Harry Kitsikopoulos Letter By William LaHay Letter By Charles F. Trentelman Letter By Ralph Peterson Letter By Harold H. Channer Letter By Anne McIlhenny Letter By W. Robert Power Letter By John Ranta Letter By Steve Hodges Letter By Kristin Kowalski Letter By Ralph A. Hummel PDF IMAGES
9	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
11-12	Readings/Article One tough lama By Chris Helm SEE ALSO: Buddhism; Career as lama; Interviews; Lamas; Jones, Pema; Teenage boys PDF IMAGES
12	Readings/Article Judge Ito goes shopping By Lance A. Ito SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Firearms; Ito, Lance A.; Los Angeles PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Urban planning, the Army way By Ralph Peters SEE ALSO: Drill and tactics; Urban warfare PDF IMAGES
13	Readings/Photo Halsey Street By Sol Sax (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Statues; Subway stations PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article California's next disaster? By Timothy Thayer SEE ALSO: Astrology; Political conventions; Republican National Convention (1996 : San Diego, Calif.); San Diego PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By John Siune SEE ALSO: Brigands and robbers; Helicopters; PapuaNewGuinea; Police PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The screen berets SEE ALSO: In motion pictures; Motion pictures and the war; Persian Gulf War, 1991 PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Grischa Rüschendorf (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Correctional institutions; Correctional personnel; Moscow; Women prisoners PDF IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Article The deal behind bars By Stephen Donaldson SEE ALSO: Gay male couples; Prisoners; Sexual behavior; Sexual dominance and submission PDF IMAGES
20-24	Readings/Article Regulatory reform: An uncalculated risk By Adam M. Finkel SEE ALSO: Deregulation; Environmental policy; Risk assessment PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration An idea with legs SEE ALSO: Chairs; 1993- PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Ferreting out big government By William A. Weld SEE ALSO: Ferrets as pets PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Workers' rights, 1996 SEE ALSO: Applications for positions; Job security; Sacramento PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Carl de Keyzer (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Coca Cola (Trademark); Hungary; Storage tanks; Sun-baths PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Disney's head trips By Jane Kuenz SEE ALSO: Costume; Walt Disney World (Fla.) PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Fiction Sympathy for the despot By Muammar Qaddafi PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Plague By Elizabeth Berdann SEE ALSO: Aged men; Fear; Insects PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Navigating the dark world By Stephen Kuusisto SEE ALSO: Blind; Blindness; Kuusisto, Stephen PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Collection Readings By France Bourély (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Docteur Honoris Causa By France Bourély (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Insects; Photomicrography PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Les mille et une nuits By France Bourély (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Photomicrography PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article The wild ways of nature By Rohan Campbell SEE ALSO: High school students' writings, American; Nature (Aesthetics) PDF IMAGES
30-31	Readings/Poem Coinages: A fairy tale By Albert Goldbarth PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo Sweyer's pool By Willie Anne Wright (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Swimmers; Swimming pools PDF IMAGES
33-38	Article Lights, camera, democracy! On the conventions of a make-believe republic By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: 1993-; 1996; Political conventions PDF IMAGES
39-49	Article Should the clinics come to Davenport? By Marilyn Cohen, Connie Cook, Dan Ebener, Loxi Hopkins, Sylvia Roba, and Jeanne Wonio SEE ALSO: Abortion; Abortion services; Common Ground (Davenport, Iowa : Community organization); Davenport; Iowa; Pro-choice movement; Pro-life movement PDF IMAGES Collection Should the clinics come to Davenport? PDF IMAGES
40	Article Davenport, abortion, and Common Ground SEE ALSO: Abortion services; Common Ground (Davenport, Iowa : Community organization); Davenport; Iowa; Pro-choice movement; Pro-life movement PDF IMAGES
50-51	Article A high-security, low-risk investment: Private prisons make crime pay By Randy Gragg SEE ALSO: Contracting out; Corrections; Prisons; Wackenhut Corrections PDF IMAGES
52-63	Article The only girl in the car: A remembrance of promiscuity By Kathy Dobie SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Dobie, Kathy; Promiscuity; Sexual behavior; Teenage girls PDF IMAGES
64-69	Review Cliffhangers: The fatal descent of the mountain-climbing memoir By Bruce Barcott SEE ALSO: Beyond the limits: a woman's triumph on Everest (Book); Whymper, Edward; Eiger dreams: ventures among mountains and men (Book); Simpson, Joe; Tasker, Joe; Krakauer, Jon; Whittaker, Lou; Memoirs of a mountain guide (Book); Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Boardman, Peter; Messner, Reinhold; Reinhold Messner, free spirit: a climber's life (Book); Scrambles amongst the Alps (Book); Allison, Stacy; The Boardman Tasker omnibus (Book); This game of ghosts (Book) PDF IMAGES
70-73	Fiction Nothing by comparison By Lisa Roney PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 164 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Abecedarian jigsaw By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES