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November 1985 Issue
November 1985 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Punishment Versus Discipline
    Bruno Bettelheim
  • The Ordeal of Afghanistan
    John Keegan
  • The Death of Couperin
    Paul Petrie
  • Doe Season
    David Michael Kaplan
  • The Country of Perfect Weekends
    George Witte
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton
    Nancy Caldwell Sorel

A Battle Over Seeds

The Third World asks for a share of gene stocks bred in Northern laboratories —from Southern seed

By J. Tevere Macfadyen
November 1985 Issue
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