June 2002
In This Issue
Kyla Dunn, “Cloning Trevor”; Robert A. Weinberg, “Of Clones and Clowns”; James Fallows, “Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane”; David Brooks, “The Culture of Martyrdom”; Simon Lazarus, “The Most Dangerous Branch”; Christopher Hitchens on Rudyard Kipling; fiction by Steven Barthelme; and much more.
Articles
Heaven
A short story
The Culture of Martyrdom
How suicide bombing became not just a means but an end
Trieste Elegies
Enigma and nostalgia on the edge of Italy, at the heart of Europe
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
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
What Price Valor?
Bravura displays of reproductive technology may shortchange the children
The Wiffle Effect
Wiffle ball goes big time—well, not so big
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
The American Way of War
The third of three essays on the revolution in air power
Beyond the Tippling Point
A teetotalers' guide to social drinking
Cal Pep
Restaurants worth building a trip around
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
Playing Nick Carraway
A new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is less a book than a TV-movie script
The Great In-Between
Theologians have revised our notions of heaven and hell. But one other destination deserves attention
New & Noteworthy
Fiction set in turn-of-the-century England and in the Australian bush; ghosts in the darkroom
The Success of Failure
We owe our economic development, our form of government, and even our physical existence to spectacular flops
The Land of Lost Luggage
Elegant Common Sense
H. L. Mencken's perfect marriage of style and substance
The Nazis' Last Stand
World War II's ferocious and surreal conclusion on the Eastern Front
Word Fugitives
Of Clones and Clowns
A distinguished molecular biologist discusses the "cloning circus" and the damage it is doing to serious research
Gems in a Jar
Fresh fruit, carefully preserved, captures summer for your kitchen shelves
Letters to the Editor
The University as Business
Universities have come to regard their students as customers
