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Foreign Affairs China's Silver LiningWhy smoggy skies over Beijing represent the world’s greatest environmental opportunity Academics In the Basement of the Ivory TowerThe idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth. An instructor at a "college of last resort" explains why. 
Books The Uses of EnchantmentBarbara Walters got the story by giving her subjects what they wanted. The Internet Presidency HisSpaceHow would Obama’s success in online campaigning translate into governing? 
Comment Redeeming DubyaThe national memory often confuses hubris with greatness. That's good news for George W. Bush. More Articles On Foreign Affairs |
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Cover Story The Sky Is FallingThe odds that a potentially devastating space rock will hit Earth this century may be as high as one in 10. So why isn't NASA trying harder to prevent catastrophe? 
Report Conspiracy TheoryClimate-change litigation is heating up. Will the legal strategy that brought down Big Tobacco work against Big Oil? 
Books Un Homme in FullA blinkered and besotted account of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaign succumbs to the erotic entanglements of biography.
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From the Archives
The State of Israel
Thirteen years after the creation of Israel, its prime minister David Ben-Gurion contended that, more than serving as a mere "national and political unit," it would show "a new way toward freedom, peace, justice, and equality, the advancement and redemption of humanity ... to the world." (November 1961)
From the Archives
Copyright Law
A new copyright bill proposing to allow the use of unregistered—or "orphan" works—with impunity has been introduced to Congress. In 1998, Charles C. Mann contemplated the future of copyright in the digital age.
100 Years Ago in the Atlantic
The Conservation of Our Natural Resources
In 1908, The Atlantic expressed concern about the country's rapid consumption of water, timber, and fuel, and called for legislation mandating controlled development and conservation.
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