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On the Bush Administration Rescinding Stricter Limits on Arsenic in Drinking Water On the Bush Administration Rescinding Stricter Limits on Arsenic in Drinking Water

Yes, arsenic's in what we drink. That's not as scary as you think. Sure, hidden in the stroganoff It's used for knocking people off. But in your water it's OK. That's what t...

Mar 30, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

He Has a Dream He Has a Dream

The grand ambition of the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Mar 30, 2001 / Feature / Scott Sherman

Visiting the Folks Visiting the Folks

I was born by a Kerouac stream under Eisenhower skies          --John Gorka The New Folk Movement is now about twenty years old, an...

Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

This Warning May Be Hazardous to Your Health This Warning May Be Hazardous to Your Health

A woman two months pregnant goes to see her Ob-Gyn for prenatal care. As required by law, her doctor informs her that her condition places her at greater risk for a wide range of...

Mar 30, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

The Beat The Beat

MILLION-DOLLAR BASH Organizers of the April 20-22 Summit of the Americas in Quebec City were following standard protocol for meetings of trade-pact negotiators when they invited mu...

Mar 30, 2001 / Column / John Nichols

Times Letters Unfit to Print Times Letters Unfit to Print

Praising its coverage, not criticizing it, is the best route to getting published.

Mar 30, 2001 / Feature / Michael Massing

GM Food–Another View GM Food–Another View

Genetically modified food has been the object of extensive criticism by many, including in the pages of this magazine. Here is a different perspective. --The Editors The ...

Mar 30, 2001 / Danny Kohl

The French Act Up The French Act Up

The election this March of an openly gay Mayor of Paris--the Socialist Bertrand Delanoë--would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. That's one reason the American edit...

Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Doug Ireland

Metastasis in Macedonia Metastasis in Macedonia

"The project of Greater Serbia," I was once told by one of the many pessimistic intellectuals in Skopje, "has within it the incurable tumor of Greater Albania. And t...

Mar 30, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Here Come the Judges Here Come the Judges

All signs point to an all-out drive by the Bush Administration to slot judicial conservatives into the eighty-nine current vacancies on the federal bench. The recent to-do about e...

Mar 30, 2001 / The Editors

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