Reports
Notes & Comment: Better Living Through the Placebo Effect
Self-delusion as a form of wellness.
by Marshall Jon Fisher
Environment: Saving Salmon, or Seattle?
People in the Northwest may disagree vehemently over how to protect the salmon -- but they all want it for dinner.
by James Fallows
Law Enforcement: Shoot to Kill
How Columbine has changed police tactics.
by Timothy Harper
The Law: Rescuing Search and Seizure
The right way to read the Fourth Amendment.
by Stephen Budiansky
Fiction & Poetry
Oblivion
A poem by Maxine Kumin
Superassassin
A short story by Lysley A. Tenorio
Samba
A poem
by Susan Donnelly
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Arts & Leisure
Travel: Undiscovered Bilbao
Visitors may go for the new Guggenheim, but they should stay for the city and its environs.
by Marisa Bartolucci
Web only: A Snoop at Bilbao
Peter Davison recounts his recent pilgrimage to view Frank Gehry's masterpiece.
Food: A Better Egg
The secret to the best eggs isn't freshness.
by Corby Kummer
Sport: Physical Culture
An American enters the boxing ring in Beijing.
by Jason Overdorf
Books
Wooed by Freedom?
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying, edited by Amy A. and Leon R. Kass
by Peter Berkowitz
The Dickens of Berlin
Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich, by Gordon A. Craig
by Dennis Drabelle
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