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July/August 2011 Issue
July/August 2011 Cover
The annual ideas issue, the trouble with good parents, the case for alternative medicine, and more View Magazine
  • How to Land Your Kid in Therapy
    Lori Gottlieb
  • Invisible, Inc.
    Bruce Barcott
  • The Triumph of New-Age Medicine
    David H. Freedman
  • How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans
    Mickey Edwards
  • The World’s Schoolmaster
    Amanda Ripley
  • The Brain on Trial
    David Eagleman

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July/August 2011 Issue
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