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October 1997

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	Photo [Cover art] By Grant V. Faint (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Automobile travel; Roads PDF IMAGES
4-91	Letters/Department Letters On Old soldiers, from July 1997: Letter By Abe Smorodin Letter By George Sossenko Letter By George Dunbar Letter By Estanislao Puig Y. On Bird-watching as a blood sport, from July 1997: Letter By Harah Frost Letter By Louise Grafton On Black letters on a white page, from July 1997: Letter By Ishmael Reed Letter By Paul Tifford Jr. PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Ars longa, vita brevis By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: American literature; Appreciation; Literature and society; Vocational guidance PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-17	Readings/Article A techno-pox upon the land By David Ehrenfeld SEE ALSO: Agricultural biotechnology; Agricultural innovations PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article A drug lord's olive branch SEE ALSO: Fuentes, Amado Carrillo; Career in drug traffic; Drug traffic; Narcotics, Control of PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Edward Burtynsky (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Ontario PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article The path to forgiveness SEE ALSO: Chopra, Deepak; Errata; Ethics; Libel and slander PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Nigel Dickinson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Cows; Incinerators; Wales PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hanford's day after SEE ALSO: Explosions; Nuclear facilities; Radioactive wastes; Safety measures; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
20-23	Readings/Article The Christian fright SEE ALSO: Abortion; Amateur plays; Christianity; Halloween PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration Bullies By Virgil Marti SEE ALSO: Bullying; High school students; Teenage boys; Wallpaper PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Kremlin square-off By L. ëIìA Rokhlin SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich; Career as Russian president; Military policy; Russia (Federation) PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Dear John By Anatoly Adamishin SEE ALSO: Russians PDF IMAGES Readings/Article It's raining, men By William H. Harkey, James T. Currie, Paul F. Henry, Edwin Ramírez Rodríguez, and Dave Matthews SEE ALSO: Letters to the editor; Regulations; Umbrellas and parasols PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Rexual harassment SEE ALSO: Danbury; Moraghan, Howard J.; Sexual harassment of women; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Plumbing the purse By Daniel Harris SEE ALSO: Handbags PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Cartoon Feeding a suffragette by force SEE ALSO: Hunger strikes; Suffragists; Women prisoners PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Rabbits PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Warhol's later work SEE ALSO: Warhol, Andy; Artists; Miscellanea; Time capsules PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hungry minds By Marianne Regard and Theodor Landis SEE ALSO: Brain; Wounds and injuries PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Hold the pickles, hold the lattice By Aric Obrosey SEE ALSO: Doilies; Fast food restaurants PDF IMAGES
32-33	Readings/Article The language of lost history By Michael Chabon SEE ALSO: Weinreich, Beatrice; Conversation and phrase books; Jews; Language & Linguistics; Say it in Yiddish (Book); Weinreich, Uriel; Yiddish language PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo Bridge City, Louisiana By Mitch Epstein (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bridges; Smoking; Teenage boys; Tobacco use PDF IMAGES
35-58	Article Driving Mr. Albert: A trip across America with Einstein's brain By Michael Paterniti SEE ALSO: Einstein, Albert; Automobile travel; Brain; Career as keeper of Albert Einstein's brain; Journeys—United States; Paterniti, Michael; Physicists; Preservation; Harvey, Thomas Stoltz PDF IMAGES
59-67	Article Fascism à la mode: In France, the far right presses for national purity By David Zane Mairowitz SEE ALSO: Fascism; 1981-; Nationalism PDF IMAGES
68-77	Review Made men of letters: Our thing about the Cosa Nostra By Albert Mobilio SEE ALSO: Capone: the man and the era (Book); Casino (Book); Donnie Brasco: my undercover life in the Mafia (Book); Leonard, Elmore; Gangsters; Mustain, Gene; Green, George Dawes; Get Shorty (Book); Gotti: rise and fall (Book); Capeci, Jerry; Joe Dogs: the life & crimes of a mobster (Book); Pistone, Joseph D.; Iannuzzi, Joseph; Bergreen, Laurence; Mafia; Puzo, Mario; Pileggi, Nicholas; Maas, Peter; The juror (Book); The last don (Book); Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's story of life in the Mafia (Book); Wiseguy: life in a Mafia family (Book) PDF IMAGES
80-87	Fiction Feather and bone By Mark Slouka PDF IMAGES
90	Double acrostic/Department No. 177 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
92	Puzzle/Department RighTangles—V By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES