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Finland — the open-source society
Andrew Leonard
In the icy, cellphone-mad birthplace of Linux, networks rule. It's a matter of survival.
Labor meets the granola crunchers
Daryl Lindsey
"These are very beautiful, idealistic kids," says United Steelworkers boss George Becker.
Congress cools to Bush
Alicia Montgomery
Bush warms to California, Hillary frosts New Yorkers and McCain barnstorms for Rudy.
Cockpit assault
Elliott Neal Hester
Since July 1997, over a dozen passengers have attempted to breach cockpit doors during
commercial airline flights. We've been lucky so far.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Readers to drug czar: Busted! Plus: One Nobel does not a macrometeorologist make; cozying up with an e-book.
From Russia with guns
Ken Silverstein
A glossy weapons catalog offers wimpy nations a chance to buy new respect from their neighbors.
The fools' guide to history
Eugene Finerman
In commemoration of April Fools' Eve, we celebrate the Seven Blunderers of the World.
Better dead than red, white and blue
Jeffrey Tayler
By electing Vladimir Putin president, Russians chose a product of the same repressive police state that has cost millions of lives -- because being a superpower is better than being a Western plaything.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
The meaning of Jar Jar. Plus: Finally, a paper conservatives can call their own; is the Iditarod animal cruelty?
A Black Sea affair
Jeffrey Tayler
On a Soviet cruise ship in 1985, we evaded the KGB agent trying to foil our international interlude. But in the end, we lost, and on a sad Moscow night years later, the truth came out.
Hunger strike in Jericho
Rob Mank, Abigail Beshkin
Fighting Yasser Arafat and a rival branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Sister Maria Stephanopoulos hopes the pope will help in one of the many religious turf wars in the holy lands.
Why Elian should stay in the U.S.
Cathy Young
Growing up as "state property" in the Soviet Union convinced me that freedom is as crucial as a father's love.
Why do elephants paint?
Elizabeth Bukowski
Well, because there's a shortage of jobs in the logging industry these days. And, no, as a matter of fact, they don't sell their canvases for peanuts.
The odyssey of “Genghis Blues”
Jennifer New
The tale behind the Oscar-nominated documentary is as extraordinary as the Tuvan throat-singers it celebrates.
Bush’s secret weapon
Steve Kettmann
Condoleezza Rice discusses her candidate's strong foreign policy convictions, but it's clear she's the brains of the operation.
A drinking rant
David Bowman
A former bartender on amateurs, hangovers, Russians and believing you're Irish.
The truth about the polygraph
Susan McCarthy
It's junk science, but proponents say it can be a useful tool in interrogations, and even a deterrent.
The pink scare
Michael Zilberman
Slightly neurotic Russian superstar Zemfira is Elvis, the Sex Pistols and Courtney Love rolled into one.
Viva la evoluci
Rachel Louise Snyder
From Havana to Santiago, Cuba steps into the next millennium with hope for a new kind of revolution.
Junker
Rachel Louise Snyder
Our rental car wheezed through Cuba at the millennium. A new century on the horizon, Fidel's nation gathered up its last one right beneath our wheels.
Real art is murder
Michael Scott Moore
Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, died forgotten a decade ago. Now her never-produced play has been dusted off to combat NEA "censorship."
Buff cut
Hank Hyena
Hairstylists at a Moscow salon shampoo and trim in nothing but their high heels.
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