June 1997

Articles

• Transylvania Today

  This part of the world isn't just for Dracula buffs

  Jeffrey Tayler

• The AIDS Exception: Privacy vs. Public Health

  It's time to stop granting "civil rights" to HIV—and to confront AIDS with more of the traditional tools of public health

  Chandler Burr

• Do We Consume Too Much?

  Discussions of the future of the planet are dominated by those who believe that an expanding world economy will use up natural resources and those who see no reasons, environmental or otherwise, to limit economic growth. Neither side has it right.

  Mark Sagoff

• Word Improvisation

  J. E. Lighter

• The Man From Heaven

  The songs of Burt Bacharach are enjoying a revival that seems unlikely only at first hearing.

  Francis Davis

• The Positive Negative

  Saying no with a smile

  Ian Frazier

• The Wittgenstein Controversy

  The dispute over the first complete edition of the philosopher's papers is as petty and academic as Wittgenstein himself was high-minded and profound

  Evelyn Toynton

• Slow Death in the Great Plains

  A sizable swath of the country's heartland is undergoing a severe drop in births that, if it continues, could empty many small towns in just one generation.

  Harlow A. Hyde

• Late Edition

  The mighty Miehle, a letterpress the size of a truck, which for thirty years printed the news for Yellow Springs, Ohio, falls victim to the computer

  John Fleischman

• Unanswered Prayers

  Anonymous

• The Life of Job in Exurbia

  Philip Roth looks back in dismay at the 1960s.

  Ralph Lombreglia

• How Powerful Is Advertising?

  Randall Rothenberg

• 77 North Washington Street--June 1997

• Letters

• The June Almanac

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