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October 2002

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	Illustration Mares and foals (detail) By George Stubbs SEE ALSO: Horses PDF IMAGES
6-9	Letters/Department Letters On Chicken 81, from June 2002: Letter By Karen Davis On The poverty of unbelief, from July 2002: Letter By Tom Flynn On Postmodern warfare, from July 2002: Letter By Jon Escher Letter By Ken Whelan Letter By Paul C. Grimstad Letter By Sifford Pearre Jr. On New books, from July 2002: Letter By Evelyn Morrison On Impossible histories, from July 2002: Letter By Evelyn Morrison On Last the night, from July 2002: Letter By Lisa Williams Letter By Richard Schlesinger Letter By Jamie Syer On Big Bear, California, from July 2002: Letter By George Baby Woods On Tea time (detail), from August 2002: Note/correction On Southern exposure, from September 2002: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Argentina; Clinton, Bill; Business; China; Colombia; Cookery; Democracy; Cheney, Richard; Disney; Education; Energy; Enron; Entertainment; Finance; Bush, George W.; Halliburton; Holidays; Department of Homeland Security; India; The Internet; Iraq; Israel; Japan; Forms of Justice; Kuwait; Maryland; The Media; Morality; New York City; Nuclear Energy; Oil; Hatch, Orrin; Pakistan; Pennsylvania; Policing; Prison; Race; Religion; Nixon, Richard; Science; September 11; Transportation; United Nations; West Virginia PDF TEXT IMAGES
13-20	Readings/Article The cow tipping point By David Ehrenfeld SEE ALSO: Agricultural biotechnology PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article When you're here, you're thirsty SEE ALSO: Beverages; Coca-Cola Company; Drinking water; Marketing PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration For the carnal in Dante's hell By Victoria Reynolds SEE ALSO: Dante Alighieri; Hell; Lust PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Traktor By Frank Mädler (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Passed by a hair SEE ALSO: Food contamination; United States. Food and Drug Administration PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Wheel of misfortune By Alex Stone (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Argentina; Career as Argentinean game show host; Game shows; Ibarra, Néstor; Unemployment PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article The garden of forking cliches SEE ALSO: Lloyd Webber, Andrew; Argentina; Clichés PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration Banking Center (ATM) By Robert Olsen SEE ALSO: Automation; Banks and banking; Los Angeles PDF IMAGES
23-28	Readings/Article Joystick jihad SEE ALSO: The Middle East; Video games; Violence in popular culture PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Photo Untitled (Ophelia), 2001 By Gregory Crewdson (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
28-29	Readings/Article If I had a nickel SEE ALSO: Google (Firm); Questions and answers PDF IMAGES
29-32	Readings/Fiction Two disagreeable pigeons By Patricia Highsmith PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Williamsburg By Bernardo Siciliano SEE ALSO: Roofs PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Collection Readings By Tom Burckhardt PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Tom Burckhardt SEE ALSO: Steam PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Tom Burckhardt SEE ALSO: Fans (Machinery) PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Tom Burckhardt PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Tom Burckhardt SEE ALSO: Chairs; Electric apparatus and appliances PDF IMAGES
35-41	Article The road to Babylon: Searching for targets in Iraq By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; History of the Peloponnesian War (Book); Military leadership; Military policy; Preemptive attack (Military science); Public opinion—United States; Hussein, Saddam; Thucydides; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
43-59	Article Horseman, pass by: Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown By John Jeremiah Sullivan SEE ALSO: Horse racing; Thoroughbred horse PDF IMAGES
60-70	Article Programming the post-human: Computer science redefines “life” By Ellen Ullman SEE ALSO: Artificial intelligence; Consciousness; Cybernetics; Life; Robotics PDF IMAGES
71-75	Fiction Spanish prelude to a second marriage By John Updike PDF IMAGES
76-83	Article Dick Cheney's song of America: Drafting a plan for global dominance By David Armstrong SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of defense; Career as U.S. vice president; Defenses; Deterrence (Strategy); Military planning; National security; Preemptive attack (Military science); Cheney, Richard B. PDF TEXT IMAGES
85-86	New books/Review New books By Guy Davenport SEE ALSO: Vircondelet, Alain; Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: a biography (Book); Maudslay, Alfred Percival; Amerika: the man who disappeared (Book); Balthus; Ivry, Benjamin; Biography; Kafka, Franz; Graham, Ian; Hofmann, Michael; Demetz, Peter; Portraits; The air show at Brescia (Book); Vanished splendors: a memoir (Book) PDF IMAGES
87-91	Review The mystery of influence: Why Raymond Chandler persists while so many more respected writers are forgotten By Pico Iyer SEE ALSO: Collected stories (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Chandler, Raymond; The big sleep, Farewell, my lovely, The high window (Book); The lady in the lake, The little sister, The long goodbye, Playback (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-96	Review The elaborations: Rimbaud at the mercy of biographers By Wyatt Mason SEE ALSO: Rimbaud, Arthur; Arthur Rimbaud (Book); Arthur Rimbaud: presence of an enigma (Book); Authors, French; Biography; Robb, Graham; Lefrère, Jean-Jacques; Steinmetz, Jean-Luc; Portraits; Rimbaud (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Missing links By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Quiz/Department Long strange trip PDF IMAGES

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