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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.
Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere
Salon Tech Writers
Write free software -- and write it off your tax bill?
Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Family matters
Charles Taylor
John Boorman's enchanted comedy "Where the Heart Is" sings the praises of hearth and home.
Real America?
Joan Walsh
Alan Dershowitz blasts Clinton critic Rep. Bob Barr for a speech to white supremacists.
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.
“A Simple Plan” avoids the shallow grave
Charles Taylor
'A Simple Plan' offers a brutally
realistic portrayal of what can happen when upright people take one wrong
turn.
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.
Impeachment hearing voices
Salon StaffInternet activism, Czech-style
Mark Schapiro
Internet activism, Czech-style: By Mark Schapiro. The Communists are yesterday's target -- today, it's the phone company's Net-access rate hikes.
The cruise cocoon
Zachary Karabell
A guest lecturer on a luxury Aegean voyage asks: Is this any way to see the world?
Jews for Jesus
Danny Miller
Jews for Jesus: For my Holy Spirit-possessed sixth-grade teacher, it wasn't enough to sing the songs for our school's Christmas parade, we had to feel them.
Is Mike Davis' Los Angeles all in his head?
Veronique de Turenne
He's been lionized as a prescient Marxist prophet of end-of-the-continent doom and gloom. But a growing number of critics charge that the author of "City of Quartz" has feet of clay.
This week in travel
Susanna Stromberg
Wanderlust's select guide to the top travel-related news stories from around the globe.
Ahoy, mates
Susan Lehman
Warring contributors to the Nation magazine bravely set sail together on a Caribbean cruise.
Family circus
Gary Kaufman
Jerry Springer: Ringmaster
Reviewed by Gary Kaufman
The movie is every bit as loud and raunchy as the television show -- so what's not to like?
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.
The Salon Interview: Andrea Barrett
Peter Kurth
The author of "The Voyage of the Narwhal" talks about literary fame and the thrill of turning research into stories.
“Black people must be stupid”
Joel Dreyfuss
A black writer takes issue with David Horowitz's criticism of African-American bloc-voting in the last election.
The men's room
Diane Lore
There's no rest for parents weary of making the decision whether to send their kids into public bathrooms.
21st Log: His was the mouse that roared
Andrew Leonard
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