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“Psycho factories” and “The business of law and order”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to our review of "Going up the River" and interview with the book's author, Joseph Hallinan.
Will mad cows kill the Big Mac?
Daryl Lindsey
With strict safety measures and new menu options, McDonald's is acting fast to stem losses from disease in Europe, and bracing for a beef scare in the U.S.
Paranoia: Fear for connoisseurs
Douglas Cruickshank
Welcome to a special week's worth of articles on the darkness that strikes deep, takes hold and never lets go.
The virtual reality shrink
Damien Cave
Can computerized 3-D immersion therapy cure you of your fear of flying?
Season of the witch
Garrison Keillor
I'd like to tell my conservative Christian mother-in-law I practice Wicca. Do you think she'd understand?
Life under the hole in the sky
Dawn MacKeen
For the people of southern Chile, ozone depletion isn't a political issue -- it's a nightmarish reality. A report from the globe's ecological future.
Secret grief
Terry Greene Sterling
Deborah Laake went from arrogance to talk shows to misery after publishing her indictment of Mormon practices, "Secret Ceremonies." And then she killed herself.
Sexual moderates
Emily Jenkins
The American media makes us think we are strange if we aren't thinking about sex all the time.
Bush caught in concealed-guns crossfire
Alicia Montgomery
Candidates draw debate battle lines, Nader plans a sneak attack, polls keep Bush and Gore on the defensive and the WWF enlists young voters.
Missives to corporate America
Kenneth Cleaver
A consumer correspondent challenges SmithKline Beecham to start a Paxil softball league, wants Target-sponsored sunsets and confesses a desire for Gap mannequins.
The one and only
Garrison Keillor
He's my true love, but he's married. Is there just one perfect person in the world for everyone?
Love’s labors flossed
Rebecca Segall
Inventor Sean Dix wanted to revolutionize the way we get rid of plaque. Now he's in jail for threatening Ted Turner's life.
Out on a limb
Randy Dotinga
A New York psychologist searches for a hospital to allow his healthy right leg to be cut off after a Scottish facility refuses.
What to read
Salon's critics
From an icy thriller to a humid Southern novel, late-summer fiction that knocked our flip-flops off.
Picking parents for Joshua
Beth Broeker
His biological mom and dad nearly killed him. Now I must find the perfect people to give him a fresh start.
Citizen Killer?
Jeff Chorney
A friend of the Black Dahlia fingers a surprising suspect in the legendary unsolved murder: Orson Welles.
Sex, capitalism and antidepressants
Mary Gaitskill, Rick Moody
Two writers wrestle with the impossibility of literature in a society that's afraid of the dark.
A recipe for disaster
Arthur Allen
While nobody knows the origin of autism, many researchers worry that linking it to childhood vaccines could be a very dangerous theory.
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