Browse Items (50 total)

'IRONS IN THE FIRE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-12-20; Biology; Cattle Rustling; McPhee, John; Zoology

'CLOSING THE FILE ON FLIGHT 007', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-12-13; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aviation; Cold War; Disaster; Engineering; Flight; Investigation; Sayle, Murray

'Do organ donors have to be dead?', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-12-1; Arnold, Robert M.; Death; Death (Biology); Donation of organs; etc.; Medical ethics; Medicine; Terminally ill; tissues; United States; Youngner, Stuart J.

'Ozone anxiety', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-12-1; Bodies; Bush, David A.; Health aspects; Human skin color; Interracial marriage; Medicine; Ozone layer depletion; Racially mixed people

'Babbitt in the woods', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-; 1993-12-1; Bruce E. Babbitt; Cabinet officers; Conaway, James; Environmental policy; Other; Politics; Politics and government; United States; United StatesDeptof Interior

'Paging Dr. Kevorkian', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-12-1; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Engel, Charles J.; Medicine; Nicotine; Overdosage; Parmentier, A. Hilton; Suicidal behavior; United States

'Sir Norman Foster�s Favourite Building', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-11-3; 767; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aeroplanes; Clive Irving; Coster, Graham; Engineering

'A pro-life equation', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-11-1; Abortion; Alcorn, Randy C.; David Gunn; Medicine; Moral and ethical aspects; murder; Pro-life movement; Reproduction and Development; United States

'Can an ape tell a joke? Learning from a Las Vegas orangutan act', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-11-1; Animal trainers; Animal Training; Biology; Bobby Berosini; Entertainers; Hearne, Vicki; Las Vegas; Moral and ethical aspects; Nevada; Orangutan; training; Working animals; Zoology

'Cranberry harvesting', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-11-1; Biology; Cranberries; harvesting; MacLean, Alex S.; Massachusetts; Pictorial works; Plant Sciences; Plymouth

'Nuclear Smuggling', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-10-6; Crime; Fencing; Jaroslaw Maslicz; Military and Weapons; nuclear weapons; Other; Radioactive Materials; Smith, Stephen; Zbigniew Fitukowski Krzysztof Chmist

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-23; attacks on horses; Biology; Doniger, Wendy; Horses; Zoology

'OPIUM WAR REDUX', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-13; Advertising; Cigarettes; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Medicine; Sesser, Stan; Tobacco; trade invasion

'The dismal science lightens up', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-1; Alan S. Blinder; Economics; Economists; Herbert Stein; Jagdish N. Bhagwati; Pictorial works; Portraits; Social sciences; Trading cards; United States

'The awakening of my interest in annular systems', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-1; Maths; Wallace, David Foster

'Porn for dogs', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-1; Biology; Caricatures and cartoons; Dogs; Humor; Leg; Mueller, P. S.; Pornography; Television; United States; Zoology

'Deep clean', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-1; Anecdotes; Automobiles; California; Car wash industry; cleaning; Ed Zuckerman; Engineering; Los Angeles; Mechanical Engineering; Screenwriters; Zuckerman, Ed

'Flavr of the Month', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-8-19; Biology; Bioogy; DNA; Genetics; Human Genome Project; Kevles, Daniel; Steve Jones; Tom Wilkie; Tomatoes

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-8-19; Other; Rubbish Dump; Waste and Pollution; Waste-disposal; Wilson, Leslie

'TRUCKING THROUGH THE AIDS BELT', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-8-16; AIDS; Conover, Ted; Disease; disease vectors; Medicine; truck drivers

'THE MISSION OF DR. CHAOS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-8-9; Doctor; Helmut Wihan; humanitarian aid; Medicine; Ryback, Timothy W.; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; supply runs

'The Biggest Nuclear Station on Earth', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-8-7; Andrei Sakharov; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Igor Kurchatov; Lloyd, John; Nikolai Dollezhal; Nuclear contamination; Nuclear energy; Piers Paul Read

'On not thinking about nature', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-8-1; Biology; City and town life; Country life; Ecology; Nature (Aesthetics); Pastoral literature; Simic, Charles; United States

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-7-22; animal attacks; Breast Cancer; Cancer; Disease; experience of illness; Medicine; Segrave, Elisa

'Mental Arithmetic', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-7-1; Challenger Space Shuttle; James Gleick; Manhattan Project; Nuclear physics; Physics; Richard Feynman; Wade, Nicholas

'I am Gregor Samsa', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-7-1; Barrie Sherman; Cyberpunk; Engineering; Howard Rheingold; Information Technology; John Markoff; Katie Hafner; Korn, Eric; Phil Judkins; Virtual Relatiy; William Gibson

'The crash of blue sky California', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-7-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aerospace engineers; Aerospace industries; Beers, David; California; David Beers; Employees; Engineering; Lockheed Corporation; Social aspects

'DUTY OF CARE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-6-28; McPhee, John; Other; recycling; tire shredding; Tires; Waste and Pollution; waste power generation

'What�s the hurry?', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-6-24; Physics; Regis, Ed; Steven Weinberg; Superconducting Supercollider; Symmetry; Unified Theory

'The electric cough-syrup acid test', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-6-1; Dextromethorphan hydrobromide; Drugs; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Hogshire, Jim; Jim Hogshire; Medication abuse; Medicine; Nonprescription; Psychotropic effects; United States