April 1994
In This Issue
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Articles
The Puzzler
Serious Fun: Educational Software for Children, From Companies That Know Their Customers
Penumbras Formed by Emanations: How the Right to Privacy Was Invented
A Troubled Social Science
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Cats in the Sun
Brazil
Born Naked
The Partisan
Lethal Passage
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A selection of terms that have newly been coined, that have recently acquired new currency, or that have taken on new meanings, compiled by the executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.
The April Almanac
Wild About Convention Centers
Hundreds of cities expect that their new convention centers will bring economic benefits and urban regeneration. Most cities will be left with underused facilities and decades of debt
New Albums by Haden and Wasserman but the Bass at Center Stage
Blues Comes Back to the Future
Transcendent Tibbetts
Milestones for Alvin Ailey and Lar Lubovitch
Broadway: The Great White Time Warp?
Bourrées at the Boston Ballet
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Superstardom for an American Seren?
Burning Bright
China's Gilded Age
A journey through a country bursting with new wealth but besotted by corrup tion and threatened by a split between its prosperous cities and its stagnant rural areas
The Pull of Puglia: The Heel of Italy's Boot Is Like a Country Unto Itself
What Makes a Good Leader?
Often, history shows, it is not the attributes—a rugged respect for principle, a refusal to govern by the polls—that we are prone to think we should want
What the Living Do
Thalassa: Thalassa
The Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau
Since 1970 the majority of population growth in the United States has come from immigrants and their direct descendants. Demographers predict that this trend will intensify in the new century if federal laws remain unchanged. For a look at a possible American future, consider the fate of a small midwestern city
Man Eating
O Lonesome Day That Ends in Shame
