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Practical Magic
Laura Miller
Laura Miller reviews the movie "Practical Magic," directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.
The cookie monster of Putnam Pit
Matt Welch
The cookie monster of Putnam Pit: By Matt Welch. Angry muckraker Geoffrey Davidian seeks access to the municipal computer systems in a small Tennessee town.
Music Feature: The new corporate culture
Tom Frost
Silicon Valley's 'techie
trendsetters' are making the office party the coolest event on your
social calendar -- sort of.
The joy of Perl
Andrew Leonard
How Larry Wall invented a messy programming language -- and changed the face of the Web.
School girl
Thylias Moss
I thought all girls -- regardless of color -- were heading toward vast opportunities. Then I learned the truth.
Seduced by Kenya
Don George
Wanderlust editor Don George talks with Francesca Marciano, author of the evocative and provocative new novel about Kenya, 'Rules of the Wild.'
Wired acquired
Janelle Brown
Lycos gobbles up the pieces of Wired's online empire. Is the revolution over?
Del Amitri
John Milward
My crabs or yours?
Dan Stern
Protecting yourself from a life-threatening STD may be as simple as safe sex, but avoiding microbial diseases requires subtler methods.
Spanking: A black mother's view
Karen Grigsby Bates
The survival legacy of slavery taught blacks to spank more than whites -- and that's why you don't see as many black kids having public tantrums.
The ghosts in our machines
Andrew Brown
Erik Davis' new book 'TechGnosis' traces the secret mysticism that motivates our love-affair with technology.
Scholars of smut
Carina Chocano
The first world pornography conference erupted in a carnival of porn stars, devoted wankers and earnest academics, but where was the scholarly debate?
Playboy goes limp without feminist vice grip
Nicole Nolan
Since young women stopped protesting Playboy's College Girls issue, the dirty old rabbit's coed peep show is looking pretty tired.
Has the Web made porn respectable?
Janelle Brown
The Web professional next door just might be running an adult site. But it's probably not making him rich.
Rushdie: Free at last
Christopher Hitchens
Reason and decency have their occasional victories, too, and the lifting of the fatwah against the author of "The Satanic Verses" is on.
Let's Get This Straight: Story time
Scott Rosenberg
Can narrative save us from information overload?
As American as ethnic studies
Joan Walsh
A suggested merger between two departments at UC-Berkeley has partisans on both sides marking their territory.
Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse
Lesley Hazleton
Searching for the site of James Dean's fatal car crash leads to
Nowhere.
Something to declare
Dwight Garner
Julia Alvarez talks about moving to America, her relationship with her family and the rituals that keep her a focused writer.
Letter from Pusan: The party’s over
Rolf Potts
Rolf Potts describes the heady rise and wistful fall of expat life in South Korea.
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