January 1995
In This Issue
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Articles
Reinventing the Wheels
New ways to design, manufacture, and sell cars can make them ten times more fuel-efficient, and at the same time safer, sportier, more beautiful and comfortable, far more durable, and probably cheaper. Here comes the biggest change in industrial structure since the microchip
In Praise of Snow
Watching it, understanding it, forecasting it, predicting how much water is in it—all this is a surprisingly large and intricate undertaking, one on which our society urgently depends
A Triumph of Misinformation
Most of what everyone "knows" about the demise of health-care reform is probably wrong—and, more important, so are the vague impressions people have of what was really in Hillary Clinton's plan
First Encounters
Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Architect Who Couldn't Draw
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
Hardy
Toulouse - Lautree
Good Bones and Simple Murders
Hunters & Gatherers
Great Art Treasures of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
The Puzzler
Word Court
Corrections
The January Almanac
The Taming of the Saw: Cutting to the Heart of Our Ambivalence About Technology
Making Jazz Her Story
Celebrating Civilization's Decline
The Magnificent Eight
All the Right Angles
African Strides Through Western Eyes
Much Ado About Bogart
Blues of August
Just Pals
A Mother Tough and Tender
Unofficial History
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Turkish Delight: Istanbul Melds Europe and Asia, Past and Present
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Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beyond Efficiency
Even if lighter, durable, more efficient cars eventually replace those no ic in use, a long-term solution to overcrowded highways and an auto-centered culture will require imaginative transportation and urban-planning options. Several are already in place, with more to come
"I Hardly Dream of Anyone Who Is Still Alive": (For William Matthews)
Built Pieces
Like Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington was a brilliant assembler of other people’s music
Intellectual Warfare: The Reviews of James Fallows's Latest Book Are Emblematic of Our Complacency About the Nature and Implications of Japan's Economic Strength
