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A Christian martyr. Former secretary of the treasury Paul O’Neill revealed in a new book that President George W. Bush was already looking for an excuse to invade Iraq during…

President George W. Bush signed a $400 billion Medicare bill that will provide a prescription-drug benefit to elderly Americans; the bill permits private insurance companies to compete with Medicare, which…

Self-portrait with red birds

Art by Julie Heffernan,

Study for summer

Art by Verne Dawson,

Eternal winter

by Tom Bissell,

Lessons of the Aral Sea disaster

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Astrophysicists found evidence that the speed of light and other laws of nature might have changed over time. Donald Rumsfeld, the American secretary of defense, explained that his much-ballyhooed “revolution…

Weekly Review

by Elizabeth Giddens,

A Roman protester was shot twice in the head and killed by a 20-year-old paramilitary officer at the G-8 summit in Genoa, Italy; the Land Rover in which the police…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

The pharmaceutical industry dropped its suit against the South African government over a law that will permit the importation of inexpensive anti-AIDSdrugs; the drug companies agreed to pay the government’s…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Dot-com stocks continued their long slide into the dustbin of history.A large man with a bushy beard ran amok and shot dead seven co-workers at an Internet consulting company near…

Planet of weeds

by David Quammen,

Tallying the losses of Earth's animals and plants

Curbing nature’s paparazzi

by Bill McKibben,

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Self-portrait with red birds

Study for summer

Eternal winter

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Planet of weeds

Curbing nature’s paparazzi

November 1997

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