December 1995
In This Issue
Paul Gagnon, “What Should Children Learn?”; Kathleen McAuliffe, “The Undiscovered World of Thomas Edison”; Matthew Dallek, “The Conservative 1960s”; David Bornstein, “The Barefoot Bank With Cheek”; and much more.
Articles
The Barefoot Bank With Cheek
The Grameen Bank, in Bangladesh, which makes small loans to some of the poorest people on earth, has become a model for economic developers all over the world
The Accident
The Undiscovered World of Thomas Edison
Historians, sorting through a treasure trove of Edison's papers, are discovering revealing details that enrich our portrait of one of America's most accomplished inventors
What Should Children Learn?
National standards have been thwarted, but state-mandated academic standards and local action can yet save the schools
A French Mirror
American politicians have begun to bemoan its merely vestigial presence in America, but in France a sense of civic solidarity -- the 'sens civique' -- though weakened by market pressures, flourishes still. It is among the legacies that France is counting on as it prepares for the twenty-first century
Surviving Deer Season
A lesson in ambiguity
An Element of Doubt
Disinterested research casts doubt on claims that lead poisoning from paint is widespread among American children. Ironically, lead-paint removal can be a cause of poisoning
The Transatlantic Look
Meetings with Joseph Abboud, the Boston-born clothing designer, and sightings of Troy and Rib on the runway
The Happy Memories Club
Her writing group would meet each week, and each member was encouraged to share some writing with the others -- provided the subject matter was pleasant and meaningful
Night Terrors
Progress Report
Hallowed Ground
A first experience of the Holy Land
Realized Ambitions
Shouldn't critics be asking "where the American Buñuel, Bergman, or Fellini is," says Walter Hill, whose career challenges cliched notions of the "action film"
Don't Call It Cognac
But some of the finest comes from a small maker in California
The Conservative 1960s
From the perspective of the 1990s, it's the big political story of the era
745 Boylston Street
Letters
The Almanac
Word Watch
The Island of the Day Before
Djuna
A Fool and His Money
Lac
The Life and Times of Miami Beach
Pushkin: The Man and His Age
The Life and Art of Florine Stettheimer
Bring Back the Buffalo!
Environmental and Health Atlas of Russia
Behind the One-Way Mirror: Psychotherapy and Children
The Puzzler
The December Almanac
Back in the High Life Again
Catching the Retro Wave
Rhapsody in a Box
Power and Poise
Everything Old Is New Again
Around the World With Six Quartets
Contributors
Tel Aviv: Secular City: Where Israel Meets the Modern World
