Harper's Magazine: December 2009

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December 2009

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Ray Bartkus SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Factory and trade waste; General Electric Company; Hazardous waste site remediation; Hudson River (New York and N.J.); Pollution; Water PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Golden State fever, from September 2009: Letter By Cristel de Rouvray On Too big to burn, from October 2009: Letter By Steve Pyne On Tokeville, from October 2009: Letter By Jean Amos On The dreaming jaw, the salivating ear, from October 2009: Letter By Matthew Specktor PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-10	Notebook/Article Understanding Obamacare By Luke Mitchell SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Government policy; Health care reform; Lobbying; Medical care, Cost of; Medical economics; Medical policy; 2009-; Views on health care reform PDF TEXT IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-16	Readings/Article The necessity of agriculture By Wendell Berry SEE ALSO: Agricultural industries; Agriculture; Agriculture and state; Farmers in literature; Faust (Book); Hunger; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Young adults PDF IMAGES
16-18	Readings/Article Spin the bottle SEE ALSO: Chemicals; Health aspects; Industrial publicity; Marketing; Public relations PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Art/illustration Pharaonic camp By Bradley Castellanos SEE ALSO: Camping; Tents PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article The splendid splintered SEE ALSO: Arizona; Cryonics; Death and burial; Johnson, Larry; My journey into the world of cryonics, deception, and death (Book); Scottsdale; Williams, Ted PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Mutations of immortality By Jonathan Ball SEE ALSO: Canadian poetry; Career as experimental poet; Bök, Christian; Genetic engineering; Interviews PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Photography Long exposure with insects: Correr es mi destino from Arizona/Mexico By Simon Norfolk (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Flight; Insects; Mexican-American Border Region PDF IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Sitting in darkness By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Human beings; Twain, Mark; Political and social views; What is man? (Book) PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article You're a mean one, Mr. Klig SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Extortion; Harassment; Long Island; Klig, Steven; Trials (Extortion); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Photography Overgrowth By Lisa Elmaleh (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Growth; Trees PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Guest in the machine By Tamara Denning, Yoky Matsuoka, and Tadayoshi Kohno SEE ALSO: Artificial intelligence; Brain stimulation; Computer hackers; Security measures; Therapeutic use PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Midnight cowpoke SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Bestiality; Police misconduct; Melia, Robert; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Unshrinkable SEE ALSO: Gopnik, Alison; Buss, David M.; Kagan, Jerome; Knowledge and learning; Schwarz, Norbert; Broks, Paul; Plymouth; Psychologists; Self-knowledge, Theory of PDF TEXT IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article Masquerades By Fernando Pessoa and Richard Zenith (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Biography; Pessoa, Fernando PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photography Ahern Rentals, Westminster, California By Brad Moore (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Westminster PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Praise to the highways By Roberto Bolaño and Natasha Wimmer (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Art/illustration Deep time/Malta By Olive Madora Ayhens SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Malta PDF IMAGES
41-51	Article The General Electric superfraud: Why the Hudson River will never run clean By David Gargill SEE ALSO: Citizen participation; Contamination; Decision-making; Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Environmental protection; Factory and trade waste; Fish as food; General Electric Company; Hazardous waste site remediation; Housatonic River Valley (Mass. and Conn.); Hudson River (New York and N.J.); Knowledge—Contaminated sediments; Pittsfield (Mass.); Pollution; Polychlorinated biphenyls; United States. Environmental Protection Agency; Hang, Walter L.T. (Walter Liong-Ting); Water PDF TEXT IMAGES
52-62	Article The master of Spin Boldak: Undercover with Afghanistan's drug-trafficking border police By Matthieu Aikins SEE ALSO: Razik, Abdul; Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Border patrols; Career as Afghan tribal militia leader; Drug traffic; Insurgency; Internal security; Journeys—Afghanistan—Spin Boldak; Aikins, Matthieu; 2001-; Opium trade; Personal narratives, Canadian; Smuggling; Taliban PDF TEXT IMAGES
63-73	Article Ghosts of Wounded Knee By Matthew Power SEE ALSO: South Dakota; Wounded Knee (S.D.) PDF IMAGES
74-75	Article Locking in your profits: Private prisons as a gold-plated investment opportunity By Bryant Urstadt SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Career as CEO of Geo Group; Contracting out; Corrections; Zoley, George; Investments; Prison industries; Prison riots; Prisoners PDF IMAGES
76-84	Article Shalom on the range: In search of the American Crypto-Jew By Theodore Ross SEE ALSO: Identity; Influence; Inquisition; Jews; New Mexico; Religious life and customs PDF TEXT IMAGES
85-90	Fiction Mermaid fever By Steven Millhauser PDF IMAGES
91-92	New books/Review New books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: City boy: my life in New York during the 1960s and 70s (Book); White, Edmund; Hoffman, Eva; Everything flows (Book); Revolution 1989: the fall of the Soviet empire (Book); Time (Book); Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich; Sebestyen, Victor PDF IMAGES
93-97	Review ¡Una lesbiana enamorada! The reverse bowdlerization of Susan Sontag By Dave Hickey SEE ALSO: Against interpretation: and other essays (Book); Rieff, David; Diaries; Pictorial works; Reborn: journals and notebooks 1947-1963 (Book); Reborn: journals and notebooks 1947-1963/Susan Sontag (Book); Sontag, Susan PDF TEXT IMAGES
97-102	Review One notion: Individual By Kim Phillips-Fein SEE ALSO: Heller, Anne Conover; Rand, Ayn; Ayn Rand and the world she made (Book); Biography; Goddess of the market: Any Rand and the American Right (Book); Burns, Jennifer; Pictorial works PDF TEXT IMAGES
103	Puzzle/Department Purloined letters By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
104	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF TEXT IMAGES