February 1996

Articles

• The Precipitous World of Dan Osman

  On rock with a climber who deliberately plunges from greater and greater heights

  Andrew Todhunter

• Child Labor in Pakistan

  Pakistan has recently passed laws greatly limiting child labor and indentured servitude—but those laws are universally ignored, and some 11 milion children, aged four to fourteen, keep that country's factories operating, often working in brutal and squalid conditions

  Jonathan Silvers

• Why Americans Hate the Media

  Why has the media establishment become so unpopular? Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media’s self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country’s real problems.

  James Fallows

• Right-Wing Populist

  Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign is testing a political potentiality that could have a future in downsizing America

  Steven Stark

• Fair Trade

  By one estimate, some 20 percent of the world's economic transactions are now in the form of barter deals, up from only about five percent thirty years ago.

  Cullen Murphy

• An Encore for Chaos?

  The embattled despot Daniel arap Moi, of Kenya, has sought to preserve his regime by exploiting ethnic divisions. So why is Kenya still intact?

  Bill Berkeley

• Albert and the Animals

  Marsha Rabe

• The Body Mutinies

  Lucia Perillo

• A Movable Feast

  A barge makes a splendid base from which to visit some of the most scenic parts of France

  Barbara Wallraff

• The Alchemist's Retort

  A multi-layered postmodern saga of damnation and salvation

  Sven Birkerts

• 745 Boylston Street

• Letters

• The Almanac

• Word Improvisation

  J. E. Lighter

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