January 1992
In This Issue
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Articles
The Butterfly Problem
Because the government doesn't have the means to preserve endangered species, let alone a coherent plan its decisions are haphazard—and private landowners often find themselves paying for the preservation of species they've never heard of
The People We Marry
Magic was his life. His marriage was a trick he did not want to explain
Cooked Books
Shoddy and in some cases sharp practices by the Big Six accounting firms are the hidden element linking the financial scandals of the 1980s and 1990s
Little Time to Spare: What More Could Mozart Possibly Have Accomplished?
For the Cruise-Suspicious: Sail and Windjammer Cruises Fill the Gap Between Forced Jollity and Sailing the Boat Yourself
Should Suburbs Be Designed?
Freud's Phalanx
Training Ground
Steel Ships and Iron Men
Steel Ships and Iron Men
The Scramble for Africa
Hillerman Country
The African Elephant
Being Present: Growing Up in Hitler's Germany
Amazonia
One of the Dangerous Trades: Essays on the Work and Workings of Poetry
The Puzzler
Word Histories
Etymologies derived from the files of the Dictionary of American Regional English
The January Almanac
Table of Contents
Washington: Cooked Books
Shoddy and in some cases sharp practices by the Big Six accounting firms are the hidden element linking the financial scandals of the 1980s and 1990s
Nuclear Energy Means Cleaner Air
Out of Dry Dock
Voice of the Poet
200 Candles for Gioacchino
Double, Double Toil and Trouble
Year of the Prince
Attention!
Forewarned Is Forearmed?
He Said She Said
Look, Tharp
Elizabethan Pop
J. Mack Is Back!
Rescaling the Wall of Sound
Punk in Perspective
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
New York: No Radio
Any New Yorker who owns a car can count on having the cars radio stolen regularly, A repeat victim looks into where all those hot radios go
Stopgap Measures
If our goal is to preserve as many kinds of plants and animals as possible, it makes little sense to spend limited funds on heroic steps to rescue a handful of near-extinct species. A more effective strategy would focus on protecting ecosystems that support maximum biological diversity
The Case for Human Beings
Apprehension about the disappearance of animal or plant species may be misplaced, a naturalist argues, and may arise out of a mistaken and shortsighted view of the evolutionary process
