February 1982
In This Issue
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Articles
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?
An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign
Jerusalem: Symbols of Recognition
The city requires day-to-day truces between Israelis and Palestinians— and between religious and secular Jews
Escape to the Past
Seeing Portugal before progress pollutes the air and spoils the countryside
Shiny Objects
On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, n.h
The Kennedy Imprisonment: 2. The Prisoner of Toughness
The Bomb: "The Last Epidemic"
The death and destruction of a nuclear war would be followed by unimaginable social and medical problems, according to a group of American physicians
Detour
Vigil
Drawn to Perspective
The Singing-Impaired
Interpreting the World
Double Moral Standards
TOWARDS A NEW COLD WAR: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There by Noam Chomsky. Pantheon, $20.50/$8.95 paper.
A Separate Development
Pride and Negligence
The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, r.n
Boccaccio
The World of the Ancient Maya
The Dark Horse
The Villa Golitsyn
The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry
Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered
Eternal Saudi Arabia
On Learning to Read
The Atlantic Puzzler
