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November 1997 Issue

	Disease and Human Personality LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Medicare Scams The Euro Currency Will Fly
	THE MARRIAGE CRISIS Introduction Editor The Marriage Savers Michael J. Mcmanus Covenant, Not Contract John And Paula Sandford The Wages of Women's Lib Elizabeth Fox-genovese What Government Should Do About the Marriage Crisis Wade Horn
	SPECIAL REPORT--RUSSIA'S NEWEST REVOLUTION Introduction Editor The Unhappy Military Ariel Cohen Will the'Real' Yeltsin Please Stand Up? Paul A. Goble A Very Mixed Economy Keith Bush Engaging the Outside World Sherman W. Gamett ANALYSIS Multinational Corporations: Saviors or Villains? Nancy A. Bard Baghdad Bouncing Back Aharon Klieman COMMENTARY The Failure of Germany's Political Class German-born Peter Neckermann Unions' Political Dues and Don'ts William Peterson ECONOMIC WATCH America's Colossal Tax Code Marsha Bertrand PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Idealistic Educator Robert Selle WORLD VIEWS Albright in the Middle East
	ADVENTURE Paradise Down Under: Australia's Paradise Island Claire Higgins FOOD A Sultan's Feast: Ottoman Cuisine Terrie Chrones PROFILE Bulgaria's Mother Teresa: Donka Paprikova's Soup Kitchen Juliette Terzieff
	COMMENTARY Perceptions of African Reality: Commentary on Charles Larson's Under African Skies Ernest N. Emenyonu FEATURED BOOK Introduction Editor REVIEWS That Inward Eye Beryl Lieff Benderly THE CALL OF SOLITUDE Ester Schaler Buchholz A Triumph of Spirit Cynthia Grenier THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt Character Calls Brian Mccombie MASON & DIXON Thomas Pynchon A Real, Live Horror Story Barbara Mujica Revolutionary Revisions Edward S. Shapiro AMERICAN SCRIPTURE Pauline Maier

ART
Italian Design Rules the World
Karen S. Chambers

DANCE
Spain's New Flamenco
Laura Kumin

FILM
Exposing Waco: A Compelling Investigative Documentary
Lloyd Eby

GALLERY
Richard Misrach: Desert Passion
Editor

AT THE EDGE
New Light on an Old-Age Dementia
Norbert R. Myslinski
Locking Up a Greenhouse Gas
Jim Rubin And Craig Taylor

NATURE WALK
On Heaven's Wings
Dwight G. Smith

SCIENCE ESSAY
Agents of Terror
Vinod Jain And Bharati Dhruva

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Ludwig Prandtl: The Father of Aerodynamics
T.R. (Joe) Sundaram

CROSSROADS
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Hawaiian Cultural Revival on Molokai
Eric P. Olsen

FOLK WISDOM
Flowers, Birds, and Butterflies: Love Tales of the Dai
David Hicks

HERITAGE
String Melodies: Tennessee's Fiddle Tradition
Stephen Henkin

PATTERNS
When Families Join: Wedding Celebration Among the Druze in Israel
Gaye Hilsenrath

PEOPLES
The Pumpkin People: Kentville's Harvest Friends
Linda Joyce Forristal

ESSAYS
Brain Sex and the Language of Love
Robert L. Nadeau
Engaging Satan, Encountering God: Mark Twain in Banares
Pramesh Ratnakar

RUSSIA'S UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Introduction
Editor
Russia: The Once and Future Hegemon?
Stephen Blank
The Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem: Russia's Crisis and NATO's Expansion
Morton A. Kaplan