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Our currency in cyberspace

by Ted C. Fishman,

Trading the American dollar against the American government

Math for the bitter

by Kevin J. Mistrik, Robert C. Thul,

Are today’s actors up to snuff?

by Eric Spitznagel,

Ticket to the Fair

by David Foster Wallace,

Brookfield’s Merry Pranksters

From a list of prank phone calls compiled on April Fools’ Day by the receptionist at the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois. The zoo estimates that it receives 2,000 prank…

Girl in rain, Chicago

by Paul D’Amato,

My sex life, chapter one

Edited by Harry Maurer,

Ranting well is the best revenge

by Billy Bermingham,

The Fermat riots

by Eric Zorn,

4th of July, Chicago, 1990