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May 2000 | Volume 285 No. 5
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The War Against Boys

The conventional wisdom about the relative fortunes of boys and girls turns truth on its head. Boys, not girls, are on the weak side of the education gender gap.

by Christina Hoff Sommers
May 23, 2000
Exchange: Carol Gilligan and Christina Hoff Sommers
In a letter to the editors, the Harvard professor Carol Gilligan, whose work is criticized in the May cover story, responds to Sommers -- and Sommers replies.
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Keeping Lincoln's Secrets

William H. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner and biographer, did not preserve everything he heard about Lincoln. Serendipitously, we are now provided with a secondhand view of some of what he suppressed.

by Douglas L. Wilson
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Does Civilization Cause Asthma?

Asthma is becoming more prevalent -- and we probably don't want to eliminate all the causes.

by Ellen Ruppel Shell
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Girl, Seeming to Disappear

The brief life and freshly considered work of the photographer Francesca Woodman.

by Peter Davison
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Reports
Notes & Comment: The Transmission of Hope
A legacy of stories.
by George McKenna
Politics: George W., Knight of Eulogia
Inside Skull and Bones with Magog, the former President of the United States, and his son, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
by Alexandra Robbins
Foreign Affairs: Out of the Jungle
Revolutionary violence comes to Colombia's capital.
by Benjamin Ryder Howe
Personal File: A Link to the Living
In the anatomy lab.
by Patsy Garlan
Fiction & Poetry
The Hawk Above the House
A poem by Andrew Hudgins
Thumbnail Sketch of the Tulip Mania
A poem
by David Barber
Sky Scraper
A drawing by Guy Billout
Jerez at Easter
A poem
by Robert Bly
I'm from Ballymullet
A short story by Wendy Mai Rawlings
Waterborne
A poem
by Linda Gregerson
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Arts & Leisure
Travel: Faint of Heart in the Heart of Darkness
A safari diary.
by Samuel Jay Keyser
Sport: Someone There Is Who Loves a Wall
Steven Allen and his stones.
by Michael Finkel
Literary Lives: The Unlikely Father of Miami Crime Fiction
Charles Willeford -- offbeat, funny, and macabre.
by Marshall Jon Fisher
Books
What JFK Really Said
The Kennedy Tapes, which purports to offer the verbatim truth of who said what during the Cuban missile crisis, is a shockingly inaccurate record.
by Sheldon M. Stern
Brief Reviews
by Phoebe-Lou Adams
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The May Almanac

At Last Count
The Manure Menace
by Brad Edmondson

The Puzzler
by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon

Word Watch
by Anne H. Soukhanov
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