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Chili con carne, anyone?
Vijai Maheshwari
Vijai Maheshwari reports on the effect Russia's financial problems are having on the shopping habits of locals and expats in Moscow -- chili con carne, anyone?
Red square
Janis Cooke Newman
As Russia gradually disassembles itself, one adoptive mother wonders what memories she might put away to share years from now with her Russian baby son.
America rides out the shock waves
Jonathan Broder
A Yale finance expert predicts the U.S. economy will withstand global convulsions.
The long bust?
Andrew Leonard
The long bust? By Andrew Leonard. With the collapse of stock prices, Silicon Valley hype also takes a fall.
Who lost Russia?
Jonathan Broder
As Moscow teeters on the brink, Russian experts blame years of bad American advice.
Slaves to the system
Nina Siegel
For vast numbers of women behind bars, prison is a hell of sexual terror.
Look ma, no ink!
Janelle Brown
Look ma, no ink! By Janelle Brown. The technology industry tries to invent a better book. Will publishers bite?
My junior year abroad
Edith Pearlman
At the age of 60, Edith Pearlman undertakes her own version of Junior Year Abroad -- in a classroom called Jerusalem.
The view from Europe
Salon Staff
Salon correspondents in Amsterdam, Paris and Munich report on the local reaction to President Clinton's speech.
The paperless book
Tamsin Todd
Leaving hardcovers and paperbacks behind, an Internet publisher experiments with downloadable literature.
My Hawaiian honeymoon
Cintra Wilson
A midsummer night's bacchanal in Moscow
Jeffrey Tayler
The Salon Interview – Ken Kalfus
Dwight Garner
For 44-year-old Ken Kalfus, who has just published his first book, "Thirst," success was worth waiting for.
God's own ZIP Code
Christopher Ott
Back at radio evangelist James Dobson's headquarters, a dedicated army of true believers is poised to breach the church-state line.
Letter from Wimbledon
Simon Worrall
Of mice and mist -- a letter from Wimbledon: Simon Worrall describes meteorological and other misadventures on and off the courts at the tennis world's premier tournament.
The artist of death
Gary Kamiya
In 'Explaining Hitler,' Ron Rosenbaum brilliantly explores the unfathomable origins of history's greatest evil.
Music Feature: Back in the U.S.S.R.
Julia Barton
After a brush with American fame, Perestroika poster boy Boris Grebenshikov has returned to his Russian roots.
Stumbling toward the brink
Jonathan Broder
Clinton's disintegrating foreign policy should be of much more concern to the White House -- and the country -- than Kenneth Starr's latest chess moves.
Getting into Chechnya
Thomas Goltz
Journalist Thomas Goltz relates a heart-stopping adventure
surreptitiously slipping by Russian border guards across a forbidden frontier
on his way to Chechnya.
Indian roulette
Jonathan Broder
A veteran correspondent in India says that politics and frustrated nationalism together prompted the government to explode nuclear weapons.
Absinthe makes the heart grow
Taras Grescoe
Taras Grescoe explores the dangerous and alluring effects of absinthe on a pilgrimage through Barcelona's Barrio Chino
Night of the living roaches
Christian McIntosh
Christian McIntosh describes an unforgettable introduction to Beijing -- the night of the living roaches.
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