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Readings — From the July 2009 issue
Readings — From the June 2008 issue
Readings — From the September 2004 issue
Notebook — From the June 2001 issue
Article — From the January 2001 issue
Applying Kremlinology to Peruvian spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos
Article — From the October 2000 issue
Searching for Charles Taylor in a Liberian civil war
Notebook — From the February 1997 issue
Readings — From the June 1996 issue
Article — From the November 1994 issue
Have they canceled their allegiance to America?
Readings — From the January 1993 issue
Notebook — From the February 1992 issue
Readings — From the November 1991 issue
Readings — From the January 1989 issue
Readings — From the June 1988 issue
Readings — From the December 1987 issue
Readings — From the June 1987 issue
Article — From the February 1987 issue
Notebook — From the March 1985 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.
