Currently in Salon

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  Salon's prescriptions for the healthcare bill
  How to improve healthcare reform legislation -- without scrapping it and starting over
  Emily Holleman
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  "It's unfair"
  Howard Dean on why he doesn't support the Senate bill, which he calls "hocus pocus" reform
  By Joe Conason
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  "Avatar": Dances with aliens
  Canny bonehead James Cameron makes a flashy bid for filmmaking history
  By Stephanie Zacharek
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  Dumbing down the first lady
  Michelle Obama finally won the public over -- by becoming a caricature of traditional femininity
  Kate Harding
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  Baby toys and national security
  Plus: The 787 takes to the air, and gift ideas for frequent fliers
  By Patrick Smith
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  Creating the world of James Cameron's "Avatar"
  Producer Jon Landau talks about making the impossible possible in the $200 million-plus spectacle
  By Andrew O'Hehir
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  Napalm drinks, melting ketchup and other delights
  Dave Arnold and Nils Noren are going to make your dinner a little freakier ... and maybe easier to cook
  By Francis Lam
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  Thank you, Sen. Franken
  Senate Dems are saying he stifled Joe Lieberman to keep debate on track. Liberals are happy, whatever the reason
  Joan Walsh
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  Wrong, Keith
  Olbermann's prescription for protesting the insurance mandate -- don't buy insurance -- is nuts
  Mike Madden
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  Films of the decade: "The Story of Marie and Julien"
  Irrational, gorgeous and possibly supernatural, this confirmed its director as an unclassifiable master
  Glenn Kenny