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Heaven
A short story
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The Culture of Martyrdom
How suicide bombing became not just a means but an end
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Trieste Elegies
Enigma and nostalgia on the edge of Italy, at the heart of Europe
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Cloning Trevor
Granted rare access to the labs of Advanced Cell Technology, the only U.S. group openly pursuing human cloning research for medical purposes, our correspondent spent six months tracking highly experimental work on the cells of a young boy with a life-threatening genetic disorder
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Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane
How Lockheed Martin beat Boeing for the biggest military contract in history—and how that one contract could change the way the military builds and pays for its weapons
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What Price Valor?
Bravura displays of reproductive technology may shortchange the children
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The Wiffle Effect
Wiffle ball goes big time—well, not so big
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A Man of Permanent Contradictions
The paradox underlying all of Kipling's work is a horror of democracy combined with an exaltation of the common man
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The American Way of War
The third of three essays on the revolution in air power
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Beyond the Tippling Point
A teetotalers' guide to social drinking
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Cal Pep
Restaurants worth building a trip around
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The Most Dangerous Branch?
The Supreme Court has been signaling that it will treat Congress roughly in the coming decade—but nobody seems to be paying attention
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Playing Nick Carraway
A new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is less a book than a TV-movie script
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The Great In-Between
Theologians have revised our notions of heaven and hell. But one other destination deserves attention
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New & Noteworthy
Fiction set in turn-of-the-century England and in the Australian bush; ghosts in the darkroom
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The Success of Failure
We owe our economic development, our form of government, and even our physical existence to spectacular flops
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The Land of Lost Luggage
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Elegant Common Sense
H. L. Mencken's perfect marriage of style and substance
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The Nazis' Last Stand
World War II's ferocious and surreal conclusion on the Eastern Front
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Word Fugitives
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Of Clones and Clowns
A distinguished molecular biologist discusses the "cloning circus" and the damage it is doing to serious research
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Gems in a Jar
Fresh fruit, carefully preserved, captures summer for your kitchen shelves
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Letters to the Editor
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The University as Business
Universities have come to regard their students as customers