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February 2011

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Felix Sockwell SEE ALSO: Super Bowl (45th : 2010 : Dallas, Tex.); Uncle Sam (Nickname) PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Bright frenetic mills, from December 2010: Letter By Lawrence Pintak Letter By Catie Watson Letter By Ken Winkes Letter By E.B. Bak Letter By Gary Weitman Letter By Thomas Frank On Which way madness lies, from December 2010: Letter By Lucille Lang Day PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	Easy chair/Article Servile disobedience By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Altruism; Rand, Ayn; Influence; Philanthropists; Rich people; Social contract; Social status; Wealth PDF TEXT IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article The art of suffering By Steven Rendall (Trans.) and Pascal Bruckner SEE ALSO: Happiness; Suffering PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Poem I did this to my vocabulary By Michael Robbins PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration Before punk came funk By Wangechi Mutu SEE ALSO: Africa; Face PDF IMAGES
16-18	Readings/Article The forever ward SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Career as U.S. president; Cuba; Detention of persons; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Government policy; Guantánamo Bay; Legal status, laws, etc.; Prisoners; Prisoners and prisons, American; Uighur (Turkic people); War on Terrorism, 2001-; WikiLeaks (Organization) PDF TEXT IMAGES
18-19	Readings/Article Waste management SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Obama, Barack; Career as federal employee; Career as U.S. president; Civil service; Competitions; Finance, Public; Officials and employees; Givens, Trudy PDF TEXT IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration Efficiency study (after Gilbreth) By Ian Whitmore SEE ALSO: Career in efficiency study—Pictorial works; Gilbreth, Frank B. (Frank Bunker); Industrial efficiency PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Image is nothing SEE ALSO: Advertising campaigns; Fat; Metabolism; Obesity; Overweight persons; Soft drinks PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Made in Taiwan By Colin Jones (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Competitions; Contests; Fertility, Human; Infants (Newborn); Population; Slogans; Taiwan PDF TEXT IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article The elder modernist By Wells Tower SEE ALSO: Authors; Hannah, Barry; Homes and haunts; Interviews; Modernism (Literature); Postmodernism (Literature) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Like a ten-minute egg By Raymond Chandler SEE ALSO: Figures of speech; Metaphor; Simile PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Homer Watson Blvd (red house) By Monica Tap SEE ALSO: Dwellings; Watson, Homer; Homes and haunts—Pictorial works; Ontario PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The special child By Mark Richard SEE ALSO: Abnormalities; Biography; Hospital care; Institutional care; Richard, Mark; Poor children; Richmond; Surgery PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Poem Eternal sunshine PDF TEXT IMAGES
29	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Matt Eich (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cumberland; Zebras PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Collection Readings By Taryn Simon (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo South African cycad with soil (7CFR319.37/7CFR 330.400 & CITES/ESA) (prohibited) By Taryn Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border security; Foreign trade regulation; South Africa PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Strawberries, fragaria spp. (7CFR.319.56) (prohibited) By Taryn Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border security; Foreign trade regulation; Strawberries PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Cow urine, medicinal, India (ruminant viral fomite) (9CFR.94) (prohibited) By Taryn Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border security; Cows; Foreign trade regulation; Physiology; Urine PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Nesting dolls with Disney characters, Snow White (counterfeit) By Taryn Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border security; Counterfeits and counterfeiting; Foreign trade regulation PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Beanie Baby (counterfeit) By Taryn Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border security; Counterfeits and counterfeiting; Foreign trade regulation; Toy ducks PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Hot dogs and hamburgers (9CFR.94) (prohibited) By Taryn Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border security; Foreign trade regulation; Hamburgers PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Dog bones (unidentified source) By Taryn Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bones; Border security; Foreign trade regulation; Physiology PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Electronic cigarette flavors: Red Bull, coffee, Marlboro, cappuccino (prohibited) By Taryn Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Additives; Border security; Cigarettes; Foreign trade regulation PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Seal pills (prohibited) By Taryn Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border security; Foreign trade regulation; Pills; Seals (Animals) PDF IMAGES
31-43	Collection A Super Bowl Spot for Uncle Sam: Can Madison Avenue make us love our government? PDF TEXT IMAGES Article Can Madison Avenue make us love our government? By Perry Fair, Mark Fitzloff, Marc Sobier, and Con Williamson SEE ALSO: Advertising agencies; Advertising campaigns; Democracy; Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (Advertising agency); Government advertising; Grey Group (Advertising agency); Patriotism; Political participation; Representative government and representation; Saatchi & Saatchi (Advertising agency); Super Bowl (45th : 2010 : Dallas, Tex.); Wieden+Kennedy (Advertising agency) PDF IMAGES
40	Article Ice cream SEE ALSO: Democracy; Government advertising; Grey Group (Advertising agency); Political participation; Representative government and representation PDF IMAGES
41	Article Fantasy SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Khamenei, Ali; Democracy; Castro, Fidel; Freedom of speech; Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (Advertising agency); Government advertising; Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud; Pictorial works; Mao, Tse-tung PDF IMAGES
42	Article America SEE ALSO: Democracy; Government advertising; Patriotism; Pictorial works; Downey, Robert; Blagojevich, Rod R.; Saatchi & Saatchi (Advertising agency) PDF IMAGES
43	Article Approve this SEE ALSO: Government advertising; Political participation; Representative government and representation; Super Bowl (45th : 2010 : Dallas, Tex.); Wieden+Kennedy (Advertising agency) PDF IMAGES
45-54	Article Like butterflies in the jungle: The quest for the new El Dorado By Damon Tabor SEE ALSO: Black market; Career as French president; Tabor, Damon; Deforestation; El Dorado; Environmental aspects; Environmental degradation; French Guiana; Gold; Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; Journeys—French Guiana; Mercury; Sarkozy, Nicolas; Police; Prices; Special forces (Military science) PDF TEXT IMAGES
55-64	Article Tiny little laws: A plague of sexual violence in Indian country By Kathy Dobie SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Criminal justice, Administration of; Indian women; Police; Rape; Reservation Indians; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
65-68	Fiction Always raining somewhere, said Jim Johnson By John Edgar Wideman PDF IMAGES
69-70	New books/Review New Books By Lorin Stein SEE ALSO: Galgut, Damon; Enough about love (Book); Le Tellier, Hervé; In a strange room (Book); Bruckner, Pascal; Perpetual euphoria: on the duty to be happy (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
71-79	Review Undelivered: Egyptian novelists at home and abroad By Robyn Creswell SEE ALSO: A splendid conspiracy (Book); Cossery, Albert; Waters, Alyson; Moschovakis, Anna; Calderbank, Anthony; Cairo from edge to edge (Book); Constable, Charlene; Johnson-Davies, Denys; Edwards, Harold; Aboul-Ela, Hosam M.; Ribière, Jean Pierre; St. Germain, Mary; Men God forgot (Book); Ibrahim, Sonallah; Stealth (Book); Kayser, Stuart; The committee (Book); The house of certain death (Book); The jokers (Book); The smell of it (Book); Zaat (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
79-82	Review Tug of war: Timothy Snyder looks east By Adam Hochschild SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (Book); Snyder, Timothy PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Gremlins By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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The Strange Story of a Double Homicide in Lahore	2:29 PM Feb 17
Kill or Capture—Six Questions for Matthew Alexander	4:36 PM Feb 18
The Obstinate Dr. Heicklen	4:13 PM Feb 28
State Stupidities, State Secrets	4:24 PM Feb 21
The Institutionalization of Torture—Six Questions for Cherif Bassiouni	3:04 PM Feb 8
Planck on Science’s Commitment to Truth	11:44 AM Feb 12
The Life of Wolkenstein	6:48 AM Feb 13
The CIA’s Culture of Impunity	1:52 PM Feb 10
Obama and Egypt	4:43 PM Feb 14
Gimme Shelter	1:46 PM Feb 3
Bush Cancels Trip to Switzerland	9:46 AM Feb 7
Justice Cranks Up Its Covert War on Whistleblowers	11:03 AM Feb 25
Gimme Shelter: The Game’s Afoot	12:50 PM Feb 11

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A Cartoon	2:53 PM Feb 4
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