January 1988
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Articles
Word Watch
Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin. A new word that exhibits sustained use may eventually make its way into the dictionary. I he information below rep resents the first stage of research, not the final product.
The January Almanac
Notes: Ephemeral States
Public Health: Aids and Syphilis
Researchers in the United States and Germany have startling hypotheses about the relationship of the two diseases
Washington: Nuclear Missions
Plans for reactors to power SDI weapons systems have gone further than the drawing board ,despite unresolved questions about practicality and safety
Los Angeles Comes of Age
The city is experiencing rapid growth and big problems ,and—ever the trendsetter—dealing with both in ways that every urban area in the country can learn from
Contributors
Growing Pains
The ostensible troubles of Monterey Park ,a mostly Asian suburb of Los Angeles ,have been racial tensions—but the real ones are development and growth
The Literate Computer
New kinds of software have served as advisers on the wording of a portion of this article
Writing Poems
God's Typhoon
Letters to the Winner
Isak Dinesen and Marilyn Monroe
Where Sprawl Comes to Squeeze: Solving New Problems of Density in Los Angeles
Native Ground
Why Socrates Was Killed
Conversations With Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years After His Lordship's Death
The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth
The Mask of Command
Peter Paul Rubens
The Ships of John Paul Jones
Bad Acts and Guilty Minds
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Georgia O'keeffe: One Hundred Flowers
Georgia O'keeffe: Art and Letters
Emperor of the Air
Acrostic No. 30
The Puzzler
