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Social conditions

Phil shares the experience

by Avery Chenoweth,

Should transvestites be allowed to adopt Siamese twins?

China stinks

by James Kenneson,

It may be a nice place to visit, but a billion people have to live there

Russian winter

by George Feifer,

Life and politics in a perpetual ice age

The informant

by John Rothchild,

Meet the biggest dealer in Miami's biggest industry

Pomp and desperation

by T.D. Allman,

England's retreat from civility

The capital of underdevelopment

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

A good word for Mexico City

Russian disorders

by George Feifer,

The sick man of Europe

Coming to terms with Vietnam

by Peter Marin,

Settling our moral debts

A nation of clerks

Drawn by Hans-Georg Rauch,

A taste for Calcutta

by Simon Winchester,

This terrible, beautiful city

Reporting from Africa

by Michael Kaufman,

Modern impulses and the attractions of the bush