August 1985
In This Issue
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Articles
Nutrition: Sweetness and Health
No link between sugar and disease has ever been substantiated. What’s more, sugar substitutes, while low in calories ,may actually stimulate the appetite
England: The Butser Experiment
Second thoughts about the Iron Age and the rubbish heaps of history
Say It Ain't So, Coke
Lake Wobegon Days
Harvest
The Pig War
A small army of hunters struggles to control one of Hawaii’s most destructive exotic pests
Homeland of the Foreign Tongue
Change in the Banks
Deregulation has brought new interest rates, new financial services, and new problems to institutions that have been very comfortable, and very stable, for fifty years
Pro Vita
The End of Grief
Excavation
Masterful Meistersinger
Keeping Records on Track
East Side, West Side
How to Succeed in Japan
Women Writers and Feminist Critics
China Unknown
Woman Wanted
Goldseeker
The Adirondacks
An Embarrassment of Riches
The Book of Phoebe
Popol Vuh
Carpenter's Gothic
Acrostic No. 1
The Puzzler
