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Salon.com January 10, 2003 Andrew Leonard	Remembrance of dot-com idiocy past At least Enron and WorldCom went down because of greed. But as James Ledbetter's "Starving to Death on $200 Million a Year" reveals, the Industry Standard pissed away a fortune out of mere carelessness.
Salon.com January 13, 2003 Laura Miller	"Fat Land" by Greg Critser In America, fat and poor go together. A new book looks at why.
Outside January 2003 Brad Wieners	The 25 (Essential) Books for the Well-Read Explorer Experience needs shape and wisdom -- and behind every great adventure are the stories that inspired it. We read before we go; and after we arrive, free and clear in far-flung terrain and edgy places, we invariably find echoes of the voices that led us there.
Outside January 2003	Personal Canon Writers Peter Matthiessen and Annie Dillard discuss their favorite books about adventure
Outside January 2003	Personal Canon Caroline Alexander, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Thomas McGuane dicuss their favorite books about adventure
Outside January 2003	Places Apart In her robust new novel, That Old Ace in the Hole, Annie Proulx takes the panhandle country of north Texas and western Oklahoma and turns it into her own rangeland version of Yoknapatawpha County, full of feuding eccentrics, bankrupt oil barons, and lovelorn cowboys.
Salon.com January 8, 2003 Charles Taylor	"A Third Face" by Samuel Fuller Director Sam Fuller killed a few men, got hassled by the NAACP and J. Edgar Hoover, and made violent, vulgar, glorious movies that always went straight for the gonads.
Salon.com January 7, 2003 Natalie Danford	The Chinese discovered America Or did they? A dubious new book offers an object lesson in amateurish research, slapdash editing and publishing greed.
Reason January 2003 Sara Rimensnyder	Soundbite: Sin in Moderation In Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America, Dan Savage journalistically sets out to join his countrymen in committing the seven deadly sins.
Salon.com January 6, 2003 Stephanie Zacharek	"American Normal" by Lawrence Osborne People with the rare condition called Asperger Syndrome can be brilliant, but they're unable to read the human face or the simplest social cue.
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