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Reason October 2001 Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Red Errings A 1947 cover of the kids' monthly, Calling All Boys, appears in a new collection of Cold War images entitled Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture by Steven Heller and Michael Barson. J. Edgar Hoover's central presence in the image is of interest...  |
Reason October 2001 Brian Doherty |
The Orange Revolution Lisa McGirr, a historian at Harvard, guides us through Orange County conservatism's rise and influence in Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right...  |
Science News September 29, 2001 |
TimeLine: September 26, 1931 Flash welding joins metal amid shower of sparks... Six generations of poliomyelitis virus grown outside the body... Faraday's research on metals anticipated modern steel...  |
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Ken Silverstein |
Blasts from the past The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign...  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2001 James M. Boughton |
Was Suez in 1956 the First Financial Crisis of the Twenty-First Century? The IMF's lending to the four countries directly involved in the 1956 Suez crisis, and particularly to the United Kingdom, raised the institution's profile and established its role in helping member countries cope with international financial crises...  |
Science News September 22, 2001 |
TimeLine: September 19, 1931 Orchids that look like girls... Evidence obtained that space between stars not transparent... Activity of pituitary gland basis of test for pregnancy...  |
Science News September 15, 2001 |
TimeLine: September 12, 1931 Elephant's jawbone shows likeness to scoop shovel... Diabetic patients can eat sugar if fats are eliminated... New simplified formula describes shape of earth...  |
Science News September 8, 2001 |
Timeline: September 5, 1931 Seeing eye to eye with a white wasp... "boutonniere" microphone gives speaker freedom... Mysterious maya glyphs are deciphered for first time...  |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 L. E. Birdzell Jr. |
How the East Grew Poor Imperial weather and the poverty of nations -- a review of Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World, by Mike Davis...  |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Charles Oliver |
Southern Nationalism Exploring the roots of the Civil War...  |
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