July 1989
In This Issue
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Articles
A Toxic Ghost Town
The Balkans: Europe's Third World
Poverty and ethnic strife in southeastern Europe will give the Russians a headache for years to come.
Word Histories: Etymologies Derived From the Files of the Dictionary' of American Regional English
The July Almanac
Notes: Breakout
An odd locution has escaped its native habitat
Earth Island Institute Dolphin Project
Environment: A Toxic Ghost Town
Ten years later, scientists are still assessing the damage from Love Canal
America's Consumer-Owned Rural Electric Systems (Nreca)
The Way Mama Tells It
The Destruction of Dolphins
In spite of laws intended to protect them, federal indifference and cruel fishing methods once again endanger dolphins
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Generations of Swan
Squirrels Mating
Young Love, America
Used
Mushrooms
Stand
When he’d run from them, he’d been scared. And he was scared now. But the time had come to take a stand.
How to Fight the Drug War
The United States is losing its war against cocaine because it is fighting according to a profoundly flawed strategy—so argues a Latin American journalist who has covered the drug trade in South America
Jean Paul Marat and Charlotte Corday
The Artistry of Auvers: Strolling in the Footsteps of the Impressionists
He Knew His Wagner: Recent Reissues Show Why Lauritz Melchior Is the Most Durable of the Great Wagnerian Singers
A Steely Humanist
Out of Sympathy
Orders From France
Men and Women: Dressing the Part
Ours
A Ring of Conspirators
Unnatural Death
The Centurion
The Good Times
Lace
Acrostic No. 48
The Puzzler
