February 1991
In This Issue
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Articles
Living Smaller
Big houses may someday look as outdated and impractical as big cars, for many of the same reasons
Out of Your Car, Off Your Horse
Twenty-seven propositions about global thinking and the sustainability of cities
The February Almanac
Notes: Update
More on the “obviousness question" in social science
The Middle East: Curses in Verses
Unusual fighting words
Washington: Fighting the Last War
Spurred by Jack Kemp, the Bush Administration is preparing to launch a new war on poverty. So far it looks quite a bit like the old one
The Real Economy
The Republicans say that the key to a strong economy is money in the hands of rich investors. The Democrats say that we must redistribute money from the rich to entitlement programs for the poor and middle class. According to the author, neither model is adequate to the economy of the 1990s and beyond—a world economy in which the true sources of national wealth are the accrued skills of the work force and the quality of the social and material infrastructure supporting them
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
The Time for Kissing
Earth Day Story
Middle
A Working Dog: Border Collies Are Bred for Stamina, Obedience, Range, and a Willingness to Tend Sheep
Inexplicable Dinosaurs
The Other Kennan
The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
White People
Small Fires
The Secret Pilgrim
Pinocchio in Venice
The Wake of the Unseen Object
South Africa
Moscow and Beyond
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. The information below represents the first stage of research, not the final product.
