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July/August 2008 Issue
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Nicholas Carr on what the internet is doing to our brains; Hanna Rosin on why crime is making a mysterious comeback; Jonathan Rauch on the race for the electric car; Sandra Tsing Loh on feminism's dirty little secret; the 11.5 biggest ideas of the year; Christopher Hitchens on Salman Rushdie; Wayne Curtis visits a bizarre Frank Lloyd Wright building in Oklahoma; and much more. View Magazine
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It's Lonely at the Top

By Hanna Rosin
July/August 2008 Issue

Exhibits A–G: Eliot Spitzer, Larry Craig, David Vitter, Kwame Kilpatrick, David Paterson, Antonio Villaraigosa, Vito Fossella …


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Hanna Rosin
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