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Fat kids, silent parents
Amy Benfer
Hectored by experts and afraid of hurting their kids' self-esteem, parents of overweight children remain silent -- as the nation faces a youthful obesity crisis.
Waylon Jennings 1937-2002
Edward Morris
The outlaw hero who brought attitude to country music is dead at 64.
Ordinary terrorists
Flore de Preneuf
Osama Bahar and Nabil Halabiyeh played soccer and practiced karate together. On Saturday, the best friends blew up themselves and 10 young Israelis. An exclusive portrait of two unlikely mass killers.
Executioner’s song
Paul Festa
The ravaged lives of two men hired to pull the switch testify to the hidden costs of America's death penalty.
The holy warrior
Laura Miller
The most entertaining of current books on Osama bin Laden paints him as a devout, charismatic CEO of worldwide terror.
Down on the peacock farm
Rob Elder
A previously unpublished 1999 interview with Ken Kesey reveals the "big-time generosity folded into gigantic nerve" that fueled the novelist's legend.
Another bone to big business
Arianna Huffington
Bush's nominee for top consumer watchdog has a record of putting industry concerns above child safety.
“Defusing the explosive child” and “A child’s first funeral”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to the war between the psychologist and the pediatrician. Plus: Angry readers say, "Kill the gerbil!"
Breast-feeders deserve a tax break!
Ellen Waldman
But the IRS equates nursing expenses with cosmetic surgery and diamond-studded bifocals.
Letters of the week
Salon Staff
Readers call Jason D. Hill a eugenicist, provide testimonials on the joy of antidepressants and tell the parents of cyberbullies to rein in their kids.
Everything you wanted to know about “Memento”
Andy Klein
A critic dissects the most complex -- and controversial -- film of the year.
Kiss of death
Garrison Keillor
Out of nowhere, my dear friend kissed me and declared his devotion. I swear I wasn't flirting!
Bushed!
Salon Staff
Bush enrages California, again. Plus: Does global warming really need a lot of new research?
Jerry Lewis speaks the truth
Lorenzo W. Milam
The veteran comedian is in trouble with the militant disabled for using words like "cripple" and "pity." They're wrong; he's right.
Bushed!
Salon Staff
Christopher Reeve and rights groups sue Bush, while half-human Bat Boy stalks Jenna. Plus: The president smiles through party switch as Republicans back off tough talk.
The book of the century
Andrew O'Hehir
Although its popularity is unparalleled, intellectuals dismiss "The Lord of the Rings" as boyish fantasy. Now one scholar defends J.R.R. Tolkien's "true myth" as a modern masterpiece. First of two parts.
The poison pill
Janelle Brown
The media, the government and the drug companies: They're all to blame for the fen-phen debacle, says "Dispensing With the Truth" author Alicia Mundy.
Days of women and silence
S.E. Molina
Living in a convent is an unusual choice for a student, but isn't every life a bit unusual?
The drug companies’ racket
Arianna Huffington
Pharmaceutical giants are finally bending to worldwide public pressure on AIDS drugs, but we're still victims of their profiteering.
Sex, e-mail and Modem Media
Janelle Brown
Another day, another inadvertent corporate e-mail spreading rage and embarrassment.
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