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 REPORT | 12.06.00 The Wet PlanetRecent photographs suggest that Mars was once covered by vast lakes. Could fossils reside in those ancient lakebeds? Christine Kenneally studies the latest news from the red planet.
ESSAY | 12.05.00 The Horror! The Horror!The scariest, most violent movies ever made were produced decades ago. So why are pols now all worked up about the current crop of silly slasher flicks? Lauren Sandler goes to the movies.
SOUND & FURY | 12.04.00 All Right AlreadyElvis Presley stumbled upon one of rock's basic building blocks in his very first recording session. Alex Abramovich tells the story of how subsequent musicians transformed it almost beyond recognition.
RE: | 12.01.00 RE: Shepard FaireyKaren Tercho talks to the man behind the Andre the Giant poster campaign about guerrilla art and marketing, breaking the law in Japan, and living life like it's an Ice Cube video.
ESSAY | 11.30.00 Wilde At HeartOne hundred years after Oscar Wilde's death, Adam Kirsch discovers a writer that could have been.
RE: | 11.28.00 RE: Edward YangKristin M. Jones talks with the maverick Taiwanese director about his acclaimed new film Yi Yi, digital movie-making, and the joys of manga.
THE MATERIALIST | 11.27.00 Death Is IrrelevantIn his new show, Damien Hirst trades his stereotypical gore for special effects. Stefanie Syman visits his medical theme park.
RE: | 11.22.00 RE: Gloria EmersonGloria Emerson, the prize-winning war reporter and author of Loving Graham Greene, talks to Alex Abramovich about her novel and career.
REPORT | 11.21.00 The Really, Really Big DigHarvesting asteroids -- for everything from platinum to oxygen to water -- has long been the stuff of science fiction. Joël Glenn Brenner investigates the efforts to make it a profitable fact.
SCREEN SAVER | 11.20.00 Crying at the MoviesA Hollywood blockbuster and an earnest indie trifle tug weakly at the heartstrings, but Sam Lipsyte is left dry-eyed and disappointed. You Can Count on Me and Men of Honor, in this month's Screen Saver.
DIALOG | 11.17.00 The Butterfly EffectSteven Johnson talks with information-design experts Jakob Nielsen, Bruce Tognazzini, Brenda Laurel, and Don Norman about the ballot debacle in Florida, and why usability matters.
DEEP READ | 11.16.00 Coney Island of the MindWe're still obsessed with the spectacles that defined Coney Island seventy years ago. Emily Jenkins explains why.
RE: | 11.15.00 RE: Frank RichSteven Johnson talks with the New York Times columnist about Rich's new memoir, the 2000 election debacle, and "mediathons" like the O.J. trial and Monicagate.
FEED 2000 PAGEBOUND | 11.13.00 Atlas ShrugsDid Saul Bellow know what he was getting into by agreeing to let James Atlas write his biography? Keith Gessen investigates.
ESSAY | 11.03.00 War of IndependenceSo you think Ralph Nader is pro-labor? Try working for him. A first-person account by Tim Shorrock.
REPORT | 11.02.00 Does Al Gore Dream of Electoral Sweeps?The Electoral College is outmoded and unfashionable, so who needs it? According to a scientist at MIT, we do. Frank Bures reports.
ESSAY | 11.01.00 The Money MenWhat does Alan Greenspan have in common with an eighteenth-century escaped convict who ruined the French economy? Brian Doherty finds out.
ESSAY | 10.31.00 I Ain't Afraid of No GhostsJessica Hundley goes hunting for spirits with some experts in the field of paranormal activity.
IDÉE FIXE | 10.30.00 The Universal LaboratoryIn a warehouse full of junk, Julian Dibbell reflects on one man's compulsion to collect technological detritus -- and on humanity's conflicting desires to create and to destroy.
ESSAY | 10.27.00 The Long Prosaic Loaf of Daily BreadFor almost four decades, Sylvia Plath's name has been synonymous with controversy, passion, and tragedy. But as her unabridged journals testify, the most notable aspect of her life might well have been its ordinariness. Lisa Levy reads between the lines.
DEEP READ | 10.26.00 Hit the Road to DreamlandChris Lehmann looks at some brave new books and a library exhibit that ransack the past for a usable utopia.
REPORT | 10.25.00 Birth of a StationThis week, Sony releases a dazzling new game console. But with Microsoft's Xbox looming on the horizon, will PlayStation2 turn out to be Betamax redux? Mark Pesce reports.
AFTER DARWIN | 10.23.00 Seven Ways of Looking at a ProteinClay Shirky explores some of the ways that DNA researchers are now attempting to visualize the invisible -- one protein at a time.
ESSAY | 10.20.00 Desert of MemoryBrian Edwards looks at the legacy left in both Morocco and America by the expatriate's expatriate, Paul Bowles, nearly a year after the writer's death -- a legacy of controversy, and of sustained artistic achievement.
RE: | 10.19.00 RE: Vincent JanikJulian Dibbell and marine biologist Vincent Janik discuss Janik's recent dolphin communication research, and the prospect that the chitters and clicks of the bottlenosed might hold clues to the origins of human speech.
DEEP READ | 10.18.00 Elvis Jefferson ClintonThe current president put on so many masks during his tenure in the White House, it's hard to imagine which Clinton history will remember. Alex Abramovich looks for clues.
ESSAY | 10.17.00 Cry Hackerdom!Is it possible that hackers -- long derided as antisocial geeks bent on causing havoc -- are actually the last of the true, democratic optimists? Brendan Koerner makes the case.
REPORT | 10.13.00 Out on a LimbFor two and a half years, radical activists have been living in trees, fighting to save the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Is it a lost cause? Matthew Power takes to the woods to find out.
ESSAY | 10.12.00 Electric TownCatherine Pawasarat journeys to the heart of the world's largest electronic bazaar: Akihabara, Japan.
DIALOG | 10.11.00 Of Editors and Adding MachinesAndré Schiffrin's new book argues that an army of statisticians and business men is killing publishing. We've invited him, John Donatich and Dave Eggers to conduct an autopsy.
RE: | 10.06.00 The Case for
CannibalismMark Van de Walle talks with anthropologist Patricia Lambert about evidence of twelfth-century cannibalism in the American Southwest -- evidence that has sparked both scientific and cultural controversy.
ESSAY | 10.05.00 Hitting the WallMost great physicists and mathematicians do their breakthrough work in their twenties or thirties. What does that tell us about how the mind changes with age? Mitchell Stephens investigates.
DEEP READ | 10.04.00 Nothing If Not CriticalGwyneth, Leo, and Ethan have a handle on their Shakespeare. Why does he give Kermode, Holden, and Bloom so much trouble? Adam Kirsch explains.
THE INTERFACE | 10.03.00 Change the System!The recent arrival of Apple's next-generation operating system, OS X, is a tech landmark. But, Steven Johnson asks, is it also this generation's Sgt. Pepper?
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