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Review — From the February 1997 issue
A psychiatric handbook lists a madness for everyone
Article — From the June 1991 issue
Bad loans, not bad laws, created the current crisis
Article — From the September 1990 issue
How deregulation begat the S&L scandal
Article — From the January 1988 issue
A guide to the new Reaganomics
Article — From the January 1985 issue
T. Boone Pickens and the end of Gulf Oil
Article — From the February 1984 issue
How Justice Brandeis almost ruined the country
Article — From the April 1981 issue
The Hunts of Dallas
By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis, Bill Dolce (Photographer), Steve Dolce (Photographer)
Article — From the September 1979 issue
Certain matters relating to T. Bertram Lance and various financial institutions
Article — From the November 1974 issue

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
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