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The little operating system that could By Andrew Leonard
Microsoft, beware -- Linux fans are hell-bent on world domination (06/26/98)
The dumbing-down of programming By Ellen Ullman
Part One: Rebelling against Microsoft and its wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing (05/12/98)
Part Two: Returning to the source. Once knowledge disappears into code, how do we retrieve it? (05/13/98)
Are microchips too fast for mere mortals? By Scott Rosenberg
Moore's Law means our processors get faster every year -- but no law can find uses for all that computing power (06/18/98)
A Web of their own By Janelle Brown
Scientologists say their Internet filter protects the faithful. Critics call it "cult mind-control" (07/15/98)
Is Bill Gates a closet liberal? By Andrew Leonard
The money trail of his philanthropy suggests just that (01/29/98)
Books
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The artist of death By Gary Kamiya
Who was the man who perpetrated the greatest evil in human history? Ron Rosenbaum brilliantly explores the origins of Hitler's evil (06/30/98)
The Salon Interview: Richard Powers By Laura Miller
The author of "Galatea 2.2" and "Gain" on cancer, corporations, the blankness of the Midwest and the elusive art of seducing readers (07/23/98)
Communism on your coffee table! By Barbara Ehrenreich
All-conquering capitalism has turned Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" into the perfect accessory for your ironic, upwardly mobile lifestyle (04/30/98)
My syndrome, myself By Laura Miller
Anorexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette's syndrome -- have our illnesses become our identities? (06/24/98)
Punch drunk By Vivian Gornick
Norman Mailer's collected essays reveal the sad legacy of a writer who couldn't stop fighting (05/27/98)
Columnists
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Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Viagra calls: My date with the wonder drug (05/08/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
The loafing class: Shiftless, lazy good-for-nothings? Try the richly paid leftist professors securely ensconced in their irrelevant ivory towers (02/09/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
America's New Age obsessions: The good the bad and the inner child-y (05/26/98)
Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
The Demise of Discipline
Spoiled rotten: Stop worrying about bruising your children's precious egos and start worrying about turning them into big babies (01/27/98)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Breaking the code: Probing the secret rules of a high-class strip joint (04/29/98)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Plastic surgery: Hotline volunteers needed (01/27/98)
Entertainment
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Back is beautiful By Erin J. Aubry
Does the public's embrace of Jennifer Lopez's abundant butt signal a cultural revolution -- or simply the triumph of watered-down multiculturalism? (07/15/98)
Yucky Woody By Andrew O'Hehir
Woody Allen gives his hard-core fans the final finger (07/15/98)
Why must I be a teenage vampire slayer in love? By Joyce Millman
Buffy the Vampire Slayer learns about life while protecting the planet from the undead (06/08/98)
Twentieth century vox By Sarah Vowell
A farewell to Frank Sinatra -- and to the America he embodied (05/15/98)
R.I.P. Carl Wilson By Mark Athitakis
Remembering the brother who made the Beach Boys rock (02/13/98)
Sex and the single songwriter By Jennie Yabroff
Lyle Lovett talks about Texas songwriters, the artist's life and "The Opposite of Sex" (05/22/98)
Features
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Fetish Nation By Carol Lloyd
The sexual underground, amplified by Internet culture, is more visible than ever, celebrating its brave new world of whips, diapers and corsets. But is the rest of America ready to follow? (07/02/98)
Astral projection, hugging trees and BBQ chicken wings By Alan Kaufman
Things Carl Little Crow and I did to stay sober in San Francisco (05/14/98)
Media Circus
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Yellow journalism By Carol Lloyd
Why are reporters, those vigilant guardians of constitutional freedoms, cravenly unzipping themselves for drug testing? (04/01/98)
Would you buy a new car from this novelist? By James Poniewozik
Why are Don DeLillo and David Duchovny shilling for Oldsmobile? Ask the folks at the New York Times Book Review, where yesterday's essay becomes today's ad copy! (07/22/98)
Befriend and betray By Tom McNichol
If journalists can't stab their sources in the back, what will fill the pages of our nation's great newspapers and magazines? (07/31/98)
Morale lunch, anyone? By Daniel Radosh
The real e-mail Michael Kinsley sent to his Slate colleagues about his ill-fated New Yorker courtship (07/16/98)
Rotten banana By Bruce Shapiro
While the media race to condemn the reporter who broke into Chiquita Banana's voice-mail, they're forgetting who the real villain is (07/08/98)
The rise and fall of "Spanker" Johnson By Christopher Hitchens
The right-wing historian's longtime mistress deals him the unkindest whack of all (05/28/98)
Money
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The economy of fake fat By Heather Chaplin
Proctor and Gamble has spent millions of dollars bringing Olestra to market, but will the American people invest in the snacks that divest your bowels (07/31/98)
Farmers of the American Dream By Carol Lloyd
The world of financial infomercials promises free money, but what they're really selling is faith in your potential (07/24/98)
Mothers Who Think
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The forgiven By Michelle Goldberg
Part One: Who would befriend such savage murderers? The victims' parents did (01/07/98)
Part Two: What do you call someone who befriends the man who tortured, raped, killed
and cannibalized her daughter? Crazy? Or a saint? (01/07/98)
Kidnapped By Peter Kurth
My sister's little girls were stolen 19 years ago by her ex-husband. So why is the media putting her on trial? (05/07/98)
The Willey of our discontent By Katie Roiphe
American women are as weary of the sexual policing of the '90s as they are skeptical of the president's latest accuser (03/19/98)
Losing it By Lori Leibovich
No lover but the first will ever know me as both a child and a woman (02/13/98)
The good father By Kate Moses
"Birthday Letters" is a huge gift to readers that has cost Ted Hughes dearly (02/06/98)
Newsreal
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The road to Hale By Jonathan Broder and Murray Waas
Key Whitewater witness David Hale received secret cash payments from anti-Clinton billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife (03/17/98)
The secret life of a scandal By Steve Erickson
Americans forgive Clinton and Lewinsky because they understand the truth about sex, lies and legal obsessions (07/16/98)
A full list of Salon coverage on the Clinton/Starr sideshow
The prince who came down from his tower By John Leonard
Authors battle to define the life and legacy of Robert F. Kennedy, the last American politician worth caring about (06/02/98)
Wanderlust
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Coming Down By Dwight Garner
Jon Krakauer speaks for the first time about the controversy swirling around his bestselling book, "Into Thin Air"(08/03/98)
"Save me,wild qahba!" By Jeffrey Tayler
An impromptu visit to a hashish den leads to a night of frenzied encounters with the fallen women of Marrakech (03/10/98)
Fear, drugs and soccer in Asia By Karl Taro Greenfeld
From a Thai beach to a Nepalese sports field, a reporter immerses himself in Asia's hedonistic expat scene -- and confronts some personal demons (02/03/98)
Coronation Everest By Jan Morris
The journalist who broke the story of the first successful Everest ascent remembers that singular event -- and laments a lost age of mountaineering (05/04/98)
Embraced in Spain By Barry Yeoman
Traveling solo in Spain, a writer is befriended by a group of
macho local males. Can he tell them he is gay and still keep their
friendship? (06/23/98)
Bad news from a black coast By Moritz Thomsen
In an exclusive excerpt from his unpublished memoir, the renowned author of "The Saddest Pleasure" reflects on wealth and poverty, sand spits and pigs
in rural Ecuador (07/14/98)