March 1993
In This Issue
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Articles
Homosexuality and Biology
An introduction to a muddled and sometimes contentious world of scientific research—one whose findings, now as tentative as they are suggestive, may someday shed light on the sexual orientation of everyone
Calling Him Home
Full of Foolish Song: New Recordings of Guys and Dolls and Other Musicals
A Scottish Pilgrimage: Touring the Renowned Golf Courses in the Homeland of the Sport
Long and Fluffy: Inexplicably, We Pay Little Heed to Aromatic Rice, Some of the Best There Is
A Gatsby for Today: An Enduringly Relevant Novel of Acrid Disillusion and Resurgent Hope
The Butcher's Bill
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek
Haunts of the Black Masseur
Haunts of the Black Masseur
Sometimes You See It Coming
Now You Know
Fire and Civilization
Cougar
The Puzzler
Word Histories
The March Almanac
Table of Contents
Public Health: Unprotected Children
The United States has helped teach developing countries how to avoid needless epidemics of childhood diseases—but has ignored those lessons at home
Education: Why College Tuitions Are So High
Not inflation, not enrollment decline, but the subsidization of corporate research is largely to blame
What Do You Want? Our Readers Vote for Drama
A World of Theater for a Nation of Playgoers
Taylor's Made-to-Measure Academy Awards
Beck's Back on Track
Marty Brown Country
That's Not All, Folks!
Miles-Mannered Sax
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Mesmerized by the Light
At Last: The Complete Schubert Sonatas
No Longer the Obscure Oboe
A Torch Is Passed
Sarajevo Bear
A Half Hour With God's Heroes
Josephine wanted to sell her house and run away to Florida—but she thought she might need help from Saint Joseph
When the Young Husband..
John Wilkes, Esq., and Dr. Samuel Johnson
The Second Coming of Jim Garrison
An authoritative summary of how Oliver Stone distorted an already discredited account of John F Kennedy’s assassination—a distortion that, like many film histories, threatens to become the story we accept
House to House
The Complexity Problem
A pragmatic school of industrial designers aims to make the controls of a machine—be it a VCR, a telephone, or a nuclear reactor—reflect the people who will use the machine rather than the engineers who want to show off new technology
