November 1989
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Articles
Suffer the Restless Children
Though nearly a million children are regularly given drugs to control "hyperactivity," we know little about what the disorder is, or whether it is really a disorder at all.
H. L. Mencken and Theodore Dreiser
The Fireman's Wife
Outdoor Shower
Contents
The Islands & Latin America
The United States
Canada
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Europe
Playing the Cerebral Game: Princeton's Carril Is a Thinking Man's Basketball Coach
An American in Paris: The Soprano Saxophonist Steve Lacy Has Always Gone His Own Way
The Novel as Status Symbol
The Compleat Historian
The Fur Hat
Federico García Lorca
The Remains of the Day
What Am I Doing Here
Witness to the Young Republic
Wonderful Life
The Mirror Maker
Acrostic No. 52
The Puzzler
Word Histories: Etymologies Derived From the Files of the Dictionary of American Regional English
The Far East: A Few Pointers
Our Asia correspondent describes a number of foreign practices worth emulating, and others that we can’t emulate, no matter how effective they are
Naperville: Stressed Out in Suburbia
A generation after the postwar boom, life in the suburbs has changed, even if our picture of it hasn’t
Washington: Republicans for Jackson
Tomorrow Doesn't Wait
Back to Eden
Agriculture as we know it, Wes Jackson argues, is destroying our topsoil and polluting our environment. Human survival, he maintains, may depend on our learning to use the secrets of the prairie
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Contributors
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