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The Uncommon ForestPhyllis AustinMaine’ vast wildlands contain the most uncommon forest in America.
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Argentina and the Third World WarGuy GugliottaOn Nov. 2, 1981, Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri offered a toast to the power brokers of the newly arrived Reagan Administration, gathered at the Argentine Embassy in Washington for a gala luncheon. It was an auspicious occasion. After four years of unpleasant and often bitter exchanges with Jimmy Carter and his human-rights-conscious government, Argentina was trying to mend fences with the United States. He had found a receptive audience among Reagan conservatives, who liked the Argentine Army commander’s easy bonhomie and tough anti-communism. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, the first to lift a glass, remarked that Argentina and the United States had "entered a phase of reconstruction in their friendship."
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A Broken AllianceJonathan KaufmanThe bad thing about booms is that they never last. They don’t lead to sustained economic growth and they seldom leave a healthy cultural imprint on society. The riches are spent, the boom ends, people move on. Spain frittered away its gold and silver from the New World four hundred years ago in a binge of high-living that weakened and disrupted the empire. Visit Brazil’s jungle town of Manaus and about the only reminder you’ll find of the Amazon rubber boom is the old opera house where Caruso once sang. Drive through the Nevada desert from Reno to Las Vegas and ghost towns stand in silent testimony to an era when silver was king. Will this one day be Saudi Arabia’s fate? Will twenty-first-century travelers to the kingdom find abandoned industrial complexes and empty cities being reclaimed by the desert?
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The Sultan Of OmanDavid LambIn a once-forgotten corner of the world, a young sultan has led his people out of the Dark Ages and onto the threshold of the 21st Century. The journey has taken but a second on the clock of history, yet in that flash Oman has moved boldly to challenge the notion that oil-induced modernity is incompatible with traditional Arab values.
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The Dilemma Of The Black Middle ClassBrenda LaneElizabeth Olson thinks the day she joined the "Senior Care" program of Share-Minnesota was one of the luckiest of her life. She told her story in a full-page newspaper ad Share ran to recruit elderly members for the special Medicare version of its HMO.
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Reinventing Health CareMichael MillensonEvery few months, Dr. Richard Bohannon watches in frustration as a 73-year-old woman he treats for chronic leukemia goes through a painful ritual. She arises early, drives 40 miles to San Francisco from her home across the bay, then spends the next nine hours in the hospital linked to an intravenous tube replenishing her worn-out blood with a fresh supply. When the tube is removed, she drives home.
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