November 1986
In This Issue
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Articles
No-Fat City
Walking Tokyo streets leads an American to wonder, Why are the Japanese so much thinner than we are? And why do they live longer?
Intimate Partners
An examination of the underlying architecture of love relationships—the influence of the past, the causes of infidelity, and the systems that couples create
Along the Western Front
A visit to the shrines and battlefields of the war that ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
Sinew
The Quality of Life
In Memory of Mrs. Snow, My First Piano Teacher
Yvette Guilbert and Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
Avant-Garde Comrades
A Star Is Generated
From Beyond the Bars of Time
Reading, Writing, and Religion
Here Lies
The Grandmothers' Club
Peckham's Marbees
The Magic Feather
The Pianoplayers
Through a Glass Darkly
Acrostic No. 16
The Puzzler
Editor's Note
The November Almanac
Notes: History
The Far East: No-Fat City
Walking Tokyo streets leads an American to wonder Why are the Japanese so much thinner than we are? And why do they live longer?
Politics: England, Whose England?
No Longer Out of Place, Not Even You
The Atlantic Winter Travel Planner
Untitled
Contributors
The Caribbean
The Bahamas & Bermuda
Competitive tailing regattas in the Bahamas are listed on page T-30.
Latin America
Pre-Lenten Carnivals in Latin Amenta are listed on pages T-16 and 7-17.
Carnival in the New World
The United States
Major pre-Lenten Carnivals in the United States are listed on page T-17, major skiing events on pages T-22 and T-23, and competitive regattas on page 1-30.
Canada
Major Canadian skiing events are listed on pages 1-22 and 1-23.
Europe
Major skiing events in Europe are listed on pages 1-22 and T-23.
Middle East & Africa
Sailing
Trying it’s not to the win oniv back thing. the America’s Here is a Cup compendium may be the of most prominent important yachting thing, but events this season. Several other, more casual regattas are listed in the Caribbean and Bahamas & Bermuda sections of the Travel Planner.
Asia & the Pacific
Major regattas in the South Pad fir are listed on page T-30.
Someone From Cracow
A portrait of “the only free newspaper from Berlin to Vladivostok" and its editor, a hero of our time
