September 1990

In This Issue
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Articles
The Roots of Muslim Rage
Why so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified
Austria: Second Try
Austria has faced—and overcome—many of the challenges that now face Eastern Europe.
An End to Al Dente: Lightly Cooked Can Be Exactly the Wrong Way to Taste Vegetables
Designing Universes
Portrait Gallery
Fake? The Art of Deception
Broken Places
Beyond the Barrier
Mount St. Helens
Memoirs
The Life and Death of a Druid Prince
Beginning
Nine Fairy Tales
The Puzzler
Word Histories: Etymologies Derived From the Files of the Dictionary of American Regional English
The September Almanac
Notes: Name That Dune
The power of the Board on Geographic Names reaches everywhere
Public Health: Food Irradiation
Emotional opposition persists in the fare of scientific evidence that the process is harmless
"The Packaging of a Fragrance"
Coin-Op
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Among Children
Maya Angelou and Billie Holiday
Luck
The Latin Lesson
Gringos
Time: The recent past. Place: the Mexican peninsula of Yucatan, and points south. The tale is told by Jimmy Burns, a drifter from Louisiana, who is pulled headlong into a dark tangle of events. It seems there are some strange birds of passage in Mayaland. A sampling of the new novel by the author of True Grit.
