October 1985

In This Issue
Explore the October 1985 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
Heroes We Don't Deserve
The Campaign Doctors
Blue Over the Bomb
Robert Fulton
The Accidental Tourist
Honkytonk Gelato
Ransom
A Maggot
A Maggot
The Intelligence Men
Renoir
Acrostic No. 3
The Puzzler
Contributors
Notes: Two Cheers for Hypocrisy
San Francisco: A Crisis in Public Health
One city’s united efforts to control AIDS have helped reduce its mysteries— but not its menace
Travel Bargains
Why Israel Can't Take "Bold Steps" for Peace
What Feels Like the World
Taking Pleasure
Ceiling
Political Science
How a rush to scientific judgment on yellow rain embarrassed both U.S. science and the U.S. government
Genesis
About
Riddle
Death of the Nation
Regatta
Wired to Music
Software Successors
Nature Made Perfect
