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July 2000 | Volume 286 No. 1 | |
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An Acquired Taste Once, Al Gore was a nice young man and an ineffective campaigner. Today he is America's most lethally effective practitioner of high-stakes political debate -- a combatant who will do whatever it takes to win, and who wins ugly. Our correspondent looks at the making of Gore as the killer debater of American politics. by James Fallows |
Breaking the Global-Warming Gridlock The debate between those who advocate action to reduce global warming and those who oppose it is both irresolvable and pointless. It's time, the authors maintain, to stop arguing about the atmosphere and to start learning how to adapt to the weather. by Daniel Sarewitz and Roger Pielke Jr. | |
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Reports Notes & Comment: Outtakes When history doesn't happen. by Cullen Murphy Regulation: From the Leash to the Laboratory Stolen pets for sale. by Judith Reitman Personal File: Flotsam At auction, the contents of abandoned safe-deposit boxes. by Richard Rubin Humor, Fiction, & Poetry 
Laser Palmistry: The Early DaysA poem by Sarah Lindsay A Little Herbal Primer Poems by Cathy Smith Bowers Fish Heads A short story by Sandro Meallet A Little Bit About the Soul A poem by Wislawa Szymborska translated by Joanna Trzeciak Slow Motion A drawing by Guy Billout The seahorse symbol indicates that an article is supplemented with audio, an author interview, or other Web-only sidebar.
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Arts & Leisure Travel: A Mythic South Pacific Tanna is the kind of island you may think never really existed. by J. Maarten Troost Radio: The World Streaming In New software lets you tune your dial to anywhere. by Bill McKibben Sport: As American as Cricket It isn't the national pastime yet, but immigration has brought the game decisively to our shores. by Rob Nixon Literary Lives: The Jaguar and the Fox The divergent fates of Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman. by George Johnson Books The Last Great Critic Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves, edited by John Rodden by Nathan Glick Fascism's Secretary of State Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano, by Ray Mosely by Francis X. Rocca Scientific Fiction Plowing the Dark, by Richard Powers by Adam Kirsch Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams Other Departments 77 North Washington Street Contributors Letters (Send a letter to the editor.) The July Almanac The Puzzler by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff |
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