April 1986
In This Issue
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Articles
Sudan: A Microcosm of Africa's Ills
Hostile neighbors and militant rebels imperil Khartoum's new regime
The Amazon of Peshawar
In which an Englishman explores the frontiers of feminism
Do We Need to Be No. 1?
An argument for a trade policy that would seek to insulate the U.S. economy from the pressures of the world economy
My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame
He is troubled by any image of himself, suffers when he is named. He finds the perfection of a human relationship in this vacancy of the image: to abolish—in oneself, between oneself and others—adjectives; a relationship which adjectivizes is on the side of the image, on the side of domination, of death.
Feather Bag, Stick Bag
Ballistics
Last of a Breed
The Man Who Found the Wagons
Poor Mom
The Plight of Poor Women in Affluent America by . Viking, $16.95.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Kipling's India
Blessings in Disguise
Blessings in Disguise
The Liberation of One
Break In
The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
Thinking Back
Winter
Acrostic No. 9
The Puzzler
Notes: Why We Throw Food Away
Discovery of the Month
Pakistan: The Amazon of Peshawar
In which an Englishman explores the frontiers of feminism
Physics: The Gospel of String
Physicists may at last have devised a Theory of Everything. Unfortunately, nobody yet knows how to prove it
American Folktales: (In Memory of Italo Calvino)
Four Ways to Walk a Dog
Theories of dog training vary as widely as breeds ,but here are some strategies that seem to work
Contributors
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