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August 1986 Issue
August 1986 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.
  • The August Almanac
  • Conservation: Letter From Tokyo
    James Fallows
  • Berlin: Why the Wall Still Stands
    Timothy W. Ryback
  • Health: An Endless Debate
    Ellen Ruppel Shell
  • Dangers of Honky-Tonk Dancing
    William C. Gruben
  • Back From the Brink
    McGeorge Bundy, Paul C. Warnke, Richard H. Ullman, Gerard C. Smith, Leon V. Sigal, Madalene O’Donnell, Robert S. Mcnamara, George F. Kennan, William W. Kaufmann, and Morton H. Halperin

Health: An Endless Debate

Worrying about fluoride is not so crazy after all. Many Americans may be exposed to more of it than is healthful

By Ellen Ruppel Shell
August 1986 Issue
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