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January 2001 | Volume 287 No. 1 | |
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The New Old Economy: Oil, Computers, and the Reinvention of the Earth The New Economy is based on the production of knowledge. The Old Economy is based on natural resources and the production of physical goods. Now the line between them is beginning to blur. A New Old Economy is making productivity surge and ushering in an Age of Plenty. by Jonathan Rauch |
Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good This article is no longer available on the web. Mysterious, man-made "natural flavor" explains why most fast food -- indeed, most of the food Americans eat -- tastes the way it does. by Eric Schlosser 
Web only: Unhappy MealsIn an Atlantic Unbound interview, Eric Schlosser talks about his new book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. | |
The Indoctrinologists Are Coming Health-care activists increasingly lay the blame for disparities in treatment -- and even for illness itself -- on racism, sexism, and other forms of bias. That argument, the author contends, is demonstrably wrong and decidedly dangerous. by Sally Satel | |
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Reports Notes & Comment: Reading by Ear Some combinations of voice and word are impossible to forget. by James Fallows Religion: The Scholars and the Goddess Devotees of Wicca have laid claim to an ancient heritage. Historians now believe that not a single element of the Wiccan story is true. by Charlotte Allen Foreign Affairs: Flushing Out the Shlaki Everyone knows about the woeful health-care system in the former Soviet Union. Our correspondent, in Ukraine, suddenly needed a doctor. by Jeffrey Tayler Personal File: My Mother's Dresses A memoir. by Kate Bolick Humor, Fiction, & Poetry In the Open A poem by W. S. Merwin
The Bindi MirrorA poem by Greg Delanty A Diller, a Dollar A short story by Trudy Lewis Civil Engineering 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: Province of the Past A sojourn in France's département of the Lot. by Peter Davison Television: I Hear America Scatting Ken Burns's documentary Jazz is enjoyable television, but in taking on the entire history of jazz Burns doomed himself to incompleteness and superficiality. by Francis Davis
Web only: Jazz in The Atlantic MonthlyA collection of Atlantic articles on jazz from 1922 to the present. Books "The Worst Thing About My Church" Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, by James Carroll by Charles R. Morris Short Reviews Other Departments 77 North Washington Street Contributors Letters (Send a letter to the editor.) The January Almanac At Last Count Outside Influence by Carl Thor Dahlman The Puzzler by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff
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