October 2000
In This Issue
Alan Wolfe, “The Opening of the Evangelical Mind”; Matthew Miller, “Health Care: A Bolt of Civic Hope”; Jon Cohen, “The Hunt for the Origin of AIDS”; James Fallows, “Saving Salmon, or Seattle?”; and much more.
Articles
Shoot to Kill
In the post-Columbine world, police departments all over America are adopting new, no-nonsense SWAT-team tactics
The Hunt for the Origin of AIDS
The notion that AIDS arose from a polio vaccine made with contaminated chimpanzee cells—the thesis of the best-selling book The River—is far from the only theory about how the epidemic started, and it is hotly disputed. The quest for the source of the epidemic is intensifying, as researchers scour the jungle for clues and try to "walk back" the disease genetically with the help of the world's most powerful computers
The Opening of the Evangelical Mind
Of all America's religious traditions, the author writes, evangelical Protestantism, at least in the twentieth-century conservative forms, has long ranked "dead last in intellectual stature." Now evangelical thinkers are trying to revitalize their tradition. Can they turn an intellectual backwater into an intellectual beacon?
Health Care: A Bolt of Civic Hope
In an anti-political time the politics of remedy is still possible. Two congressmen, one liberal, one conservative, both versed in the relevant complexities, agree on the bones of a plan to insure the 44 million Americans without health insurance
Superassassin
At midnight I climb out the window and run through the city, staying in back alleys and unlit streets. I keep an eye out for any and all enemies who dare to venture into the night. Though they are many and I am one, I will fight the battle alone. A short story
A Better Egg
Now that doctors are letting us eat eggs again, farmers are working to make eggs taste like they used to
Better Living Through the Placebo Effect
It pays to believe.
Saving Salmon, or Seattle?
The Northwest is obsessed with the fate of salmon -- except that, as is often true, the battle is really over how people want to live
Rescuing Search and Seizure
Our hands-off attitude toward aggressive search and seizure arises out of a misreading of the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment doesn't mean what we think
Arts & Entertainment Preview
A Snoop at Bilbao
All agog at Gehry's Guggenheim.
Physical Culture
Boxing, karaoke, prostitution -- one-stop shopping in the new China
Wooed
Why the young distrust love and fear commitment.
The Dickens of Berlin
Short Reviews
77 North Washington Street
Letters
The Almanac
Word Improvisation
Investigations of slang by the editor of the Random House Dictionary of American Slang.
