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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 87 No. 23
Read the Cover StoryNATION
No Cure in Consensus
(The Nation / THE PRESIDENCY)
By Lot or Not? (The Nation / THE DRAFT)
Will It Work? (The Nation / MEDICARE)
Policeman of Foreign Aid (The Nation / THE ADMINISTRATION)
The Law & LSD (The Nation / THE STATES)
Chilling Shift (The Nation)
No Miracles (The Nation / CIVIL RIGHTS)
Something Blue (The Nation / WOMEN)
Good Turn (The Nation / YOUTH)
William Tecumseh Scranton (The Nation / REPUBLICANS)
The Deadwyler Verdict (The Nation / CALIFORNIA)
Real Reconstruction (The Nation / ALABAMA)
WORLD
The Light That Failed
(The World / SOUTH VIET NAM)
An Uproar of Peace (The World / ASIA)
Punished by History (The World / RED CHINA)
Wisdom in Watermelons (The World / RUSSIA)
Continent in Motion (The World / EUROPE)
The Importance of Sufficiency (The World)
Socialism of Sorts (The World / YUGOSLAVIA)
The Invisible Impact (The World / GREAT BRITAIN)
Strange Redmates (The World / FINLAND)
The Secret Furies (The World / NIGERIA)
Black Hoods in the Square (The World / THE CONGO)
Landslide for Peace (The World / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
Recipe for Crisis (The World / CUBA)
SCIENCE
The Payoff Was Perfection
(SPACE) Chasing an Angry Alligator
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Do-It-Yourself Kidney
(Medicine / INTERNAL MEDICINE)
Electrodes in the Brain (Medicine / NEUROSURGERY)
Fingers from the Dead (Medicine / SURGERY)
SOCIETY
The Prestige Acropolis
(Modern Living / THE CITY)
The Forgotten Outdoorsmen (Modern Living / RECREATION)
A Touch of Sable (Modern Living / BEAUTY)
PRESS
Covering Viet Nam:
(The Press / FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS)
RELIGION
Curbing the Delta Ministry
(CHURCHES) Billy in London (EVANGELISM)
SPORT
The Dandy Dominican
(BASEBALL) They Made the Stakes Too Long (HORSE RACING)
A Better Bret (HARNESS RACING)
A Dodgem Game (AUTO RACING)
BUSINESS
A Penny Saved Is a Penny Wanted
(U.S. Business / MONEY)
House of Troubles (U.S. Business / SAVINGS & LOANS)
Casey Jones Is Dead (U.S. Business / RAILROADS)
The Winner (U.S. Business / PERSONNEL)
Fair Practice (U.S. Business / EMPLOYMENT)
Bonanza Down Under (World Business / AUSTRALIA)
Aristotle the Airman (World Business / GREECE)
Flight 180 to Shanghai (World Business / FRANCE)
They Want Computers (World Business / EASTERN EUROPE)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Under Attack
(TEACHING) Cowhand School (VOCATIONAL EDUCATION)
Kudos (COLLEGES)
LAW
A Break for the Victim
(The Law / CRIMINAL JUSTICE)
What's an Occupational Disease? (The Law / WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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(Time Listings)
Peep Show (Music / OPERA)
An Appetite-Whetting Thing (Music / FESTIVALS)
Please Don't Feed the Sculpture (Art / EXHIBITIONS)
Avant-Garde Anachronist (Art / ARCHITECTURE)
Invasion Farce (Cinema)
Spychiatry (Cinema)
Growing Up in New Mexico (Cinema)
The Blood Jet Is Poetry (Books)
How to Start an Argument (Books)
Short Notices (Books)
MILESTONES
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PEOPLE
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TO OUR READERS
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(A Letter From The Publisher)
LETTERS
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A Brief History of White House State Dinners
Airline Bag Fees: As High as the Cost of a Seat?
Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy?
Junior Eurovision: Schoolyard Crushes with Glitter
Can the A380 Bring the Party Back to the Skies?
Who Will Inherit Joel Stein's Kid?
Cartoons of the Week
The Weekly Acoustic News
Climate Central: Training Pilots to Land on Skis
Asterix at 50: The Comic Hero Conquers the World