October 1987
In This Issue
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Articles
The Burden of Impotence
Dependence on the United States has led the South Koreans to magnify our power over their domestic affairs
America's Store
Out of Mind
I'm Dying Laughing
Bones of Contention
Bones of Contention
Outlaws
Hell and Paradise
Answered Prayers
Their Pride and Joy
Acrostic No. 27
The Puzzler
Word Watch
Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin. A new word that exhibits sustained use may eventually make its way into the dictionary. The information below represents the first stage of research, not the final product.
The October Almanac
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Korea: The Burden of Omnipotence
Dependence on the United States has led the South Koreans to magnify our power over their domestic affairs
Marketing: What's in a Smell?
The perfume industry is now mainly an American one, and it has a problem or two
Contributors
Great Ad Copy in American Poetry: An Anthology
The Morning After
America has let its infrastructure crumble,its foreign markets decline,its productivity dwindle its savings evaporate,and its budget and borrowing burgeon. And now the day of reckoning is at hand
The Salt Marsh
Comings and goings on a continent’s vacant lot
At the Walls of Jericho
Dreams and Downlines
Multi-level-marketing companies promise their distributors an address on Rasy Street— if they can interest enough other people in selling, say, bee pollen
Electronically Yours: Baud: The Rate of Speed at Which Information Is Sent Between Two Computer Devices, for Example, Modems
There Is No Safe Place
The Automated House: New Systems Can Centrally Control and Program Your Domestic Life
