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The sweet hereafter

Our craving for sugar starves the Everglades and fattens politicians

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In defense of the book

On the enduring pleasures of paper, type, page, and ink

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Your Constitution Is Killing You

A reconsideration of the right to bear arms

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The kingdom of apples

Picking the fruit of immortality in Washington's laden orchards

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Fowl trouble

In the nation's poultry plants, brutality to worker as well as to bird

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Busted flush

South Carolina's video-poker operators run a political machine

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Dispatches from a dead war

On the island of Cyprus, a hateful peace emerges

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Wheaties

Chasing the ripening harvest across America's Great Plains

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Brand you

Better selling through anthropology

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At war with ourselves

In Kosovo, America confronts its own ideals

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The Gunfire Dialogues

Notes on the reality of virtuality

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