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The devil in your family room

Fiona Morgan
A Texas group is offering "Marilyn Manson awareness training" for parents who fear that their subculture-adopting teens are poised to go from black clothes and candle burning to criminality.

Brillian mistake

James Poniewozik
Brill's Content -- deep, serious and above the fray -- is a big snooze.

City of self-hate

Greg Critser
Why Los Angeles elites love being bashed by Mike Davis.

The yuckiest food in the Amazon

Mary Roach
What tastes worse than rodent knee and saliva-flavored manioc mash? It depends where you come from, as Mary Roach learns in a remote Amazon village.

Of mice, men and machines

Andrew Leonard
Doug Engelbart invented the mouse -- and much more. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system.

Betrayed by the FBI

Jeff Stein
Informants who've risked their lives revealing terrorist plots, mob hits and soviet espionage find themselves hung out to dry.

Campus groupies

Allison Landa
Between the library and the classroom lives a world of wild characters, and none of them are students.

Ruff going

Bruce Shapiro
Clinton's lawyers take their best shot, but impeachment seems all but inevitable.

What does technology want?

R.U. Sirius
What does technology want? By R.U. Sirius. Kevin Kelly talks about his 'New Rules for the New Economy' -- and why managing technology is like raising kids.

Secret America

Steve Erickson
When presidents, both living and dead, can't even keep their DNA private, there is no realm we can call our own.

Best American Spiritual Writing 1998

Michael Joseph Gross
Michael Joseph Gross reviews 'Best American Spiritual Writing 1998' by Philip Zaleski

The cruise cocoon

Zachary Karabell
A guest lecturer on a luxury Aegean voyage asks: Is this any way to see the world?

Voice of America

Carol Lloyd
Anna Deavere Smith: The shy priestess of performance art has made a career acting out the intimate confessions of others.

Event Horizon's Web gamble

Patrizia DiLucchio
Can a publisher of blue-chip science fiction for smart readers make it online?

They Call Me Mad Dog! A Story For Bitter, Lonely People

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mary Elizabeth Williams reviews 'They Call Me Mad Dog!' by Erika Lopez.

Sharps & Flats: Pearl Jam

Gavin McNett

The Salon Interview: Ken Follett

David Bowman
The thriller-master talks about Bob Dylan, working with Ross Perot and why he prefers the creature comforts of a luxury hotel to the perilous terrain of his heroes.

Game over

James Poniewozik
Keith Olbermann is hanging up his completely weird news gig and returning to the world of sports broadcasting. Now what the hell was that all about?

A man to match his mountain

Don George
On top of the world: Don George profiles Sir Edmund Hillary, mountain climber, world explorer and Himalayan humanitarian extraordinaire.

Met expectations

Charles Taylor
The 10 best movies of 1998

The prisoner of Pennsylvania Avenue

Margaret Talbot

You've got sendmail

Andrew Leonard
Eric Allman's free program makes sure your e-mail gets through. Now it's going commercial.

Marriage as a revolutionary act

Carol Lloyd
Andrew Sullivan has been condemned as a reactionary by some fellow gay intellectuals for advocating marriage instead of promiscuity -- but his complex views on politics, religion and his own sex life defy easy labels.
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