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Jim Fisher's Salon stories

Thursday, Jan 15, 2009 03:52 PST

How to write a poem for the president

Elizabeth Alexander has been commissioned to write a poem for Inauguration Day. But the checkered history of the form suggests it's an almost impossible task.
Tuesday, Mar 2, 2004 09:27 PST

E-mail to Australia

From dull longing to document to electrical pulse ...
Monday, Dec 2, 2002 10:30 PST

Prometheus' gift of fission

A sonnet commemorating the 60th anniversary of the first laboratory-induced nuclear chain reaction.
Tuesday, Jul 31, 2001 13:45 PDT

Poison Valley, Part 2

What new cocktails of toxic chemicals are brewing in the high-tech industry's "clean rooms" -- and will we ever know what harm they're causing?
Monday, Jul 30, 2001 13:32 PDT

Poison Valley

Is workers' health the price we pay for high-tech progress? First of two parts.
Monday, Sep 18, 2000 11:47 PDT

Poison PCs

Lead, mercury, chromium -- that's what computers are made of. So why aren't electronics makers keeping them out of landfills?

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