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JULY 1999 | Volume 284 No. 1 | |
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The Truth About Dogs
 Why do dogs hang around people? Do they intend to help us out? What are the real differences between breeds? "In the past couple of years," the author writes, "new scientific evidence has started to confirm just how weird the relationship between dogs and human beings is -- and how different it is from what we tend to think it is." by Stephen Budiansky |
Winning the War for the West The conventional view holds that ranchers are federally subsidized despoilers of the natural world. But even some environmentalists are beginning to change their minds. by Perri Knize | |
The False Promise of Slave Redemption The humanitarian effort to buy the freedom of Sudanese slaves has produced indelible images in newspapers and on television. A firsthand report suggests that it has also bolstered the slave trade. by Richard Miniter | |
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Reports Notes & Comment: Apollo 11, Apartheid, and TV Until the mid-1970s growing up in South Africa meant growing up without television. by Rob Nixon Education: A Bold Experiment to Fix City Schools Depending on whom you listen to -- conservative or liberal -- vouchers are either a lifeline or a death knell for America's urban public schools. Yet a case can be made for vouchers that everyone can support -- and the time for a "grand bargain" is at hand. by Matthew Miller Humor, Fiction & Poetry Apple A poem by Jane Hirshfield Unknown Bird A poem by W. S. Merwin From Mutton Island A short story by Beth Lordan Hypaethral 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: Italy's Greatest Seaport Genoa was once the rival of Venice, but today is scarcely in the running as a tourist destination. The author finds that the very neglect of the city has been a form of enhancement. by Peter Davison Music: Sonny Rollins at Sixty-eight He has endured decades of personal turmoil, but as the nineties draw to a close, Sonny Rollins is once again the most highly regarded saxophonist in jazz. by George W. Goodman Books "How Can the Light Deny the Dark?" Juneteenth, by Ralph Ellison by Robert G. O'Meally The Money Artist Boggs: A Comedy of Values, by Lawrence Weschler by Toby Lester 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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