July 1986
In This Issue
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Articles
Pasta
An inquiry into a few fundamental questions: How did spaghetti and meatballs, a dish no Italian recognizes, become so popular here? What makes some brands of pasta much better than others? What's so special about fresh pasta? What do Italians know about cooking pasta that Americans don't?
The Spend-Up
During the Reagan "buildup," our military arsenal has become more expensive but not larger.
Conservation: Vanishing Land Reappears
For a change, good news: the America-is-losing-its-farmland-to-urbanization crisis has been called off
The July Almanac
Notes: America's No. 1 Song
India: Dowry Murders
A bride whose family can’t reward the groom may pay with her life
Sitting on a Seesaw: (Bringing the Month's Rejected American Poetry Into Focus)
Contributors
Fairy Tale
Where We Are Now
The Origins of the Underclass
The first installment of this two-part article described why black urban ghettos are poorer and more isolated today than they have ever been. The question remaining is how to reverse the effects of what has become a self-sustaining culture
I Love Old Whitman So
Richard Nixon and Madame Mao
Original Haydn
A Lithuanian Basketball Star
Bunk?
La Salle
The Adrian Mole Diaries
Oskar Kokoschka
The Funeral Makers
Fatherhood
Microcosmos
Kara Kush
Irish Walls
The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth Century Physics/Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1986
Acrostic No. 12
The Puzzler
