TITLE: ATLANTIC Monthly Magazine
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ISSUE DATE: NOVEMBER 1991; VOLUME 268 No. 5
CONDITION: Magazine size: Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

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COVER: The World in its EXTREME. A Sahara Journal. Cover photograph of the Sahara in Mauritania by Alain Choisneti The Image Bank.

THE OTHER CRISIS IN AMERICAN EDUCATION While the bottom quarter of the nation's students have been showing slow but steady improvement, its brightest kids are declining in both test scores and ability. A college professor offers some reasons and remedies. by DANIEL J. SINGAL.

THE WORLD IN ITS EXTREME. In this trackless place temperatures can reach 136°E "Heavy traffic" means two trucks passing ten miles apart. A tourist about to die of thirst writes in a diary that she is glad to have come and would do it again. The place is the Sahara, the greatest desert in the world. Traveling through this wilderness, the author discovers an environment to which human beings have adapted with great ingenuity. He also finds countries that are brutal, xenophobic, and bankrupt, with little to unite them but Islamic fundamentalism and a desperate need for water. by WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE.

DESIGN: LUCKY HOUSES Raise high the roof beam, carpenter--but don't put it above where a bed may be. That is only one of the tenets that builders in southern California must bear in mind if they hope to sell houses to the area's growing Chinese-American population. by PHILIP LANGDON.

REPORTS & COMMENT NOTES:
NATURAL SELECTIONS Some thoughts on anthologies, prompted by the activities of Oxford University Press. by CULLEN MURPHY.
THE ARMS TRADE: THE REAL LESSON OF THE GULF WAR. Despite the cautionary example of Iraq, in the aftermath of the recent war the international trade in weapons has only increased, and nothing seems capable of curbing it. by JAMES ADAMS.
TECHNOLOGY: CUT OUT THAT RACKET Sonic wizardry is already offering some relief from the aural assaults of everyday modern life, in factories, offices, and on the road. Soon your home, too, might be quieter. by JOHN SEDGWICK.
FICTION AND POETRY:
LIFE AFTER HIGH ScHool. by JOYCE CAROL OATES.
MISSION BOULEVARD by MICHAEL COLLIER.
ARTS AND LEISURE: MUSIC:
BEACHED: Brian Wilson's disturbing new autobiography accentuates the essential melancholy of the Beach Boys' music. by FRANCIS DAVIS.
BOOKS:
BRIEF REVIEWS by PHOEBE-LOU ADAMS.
A RADICAL DEMOCRAT John Dewey and American Democray, by Robert B. Westbrook by DAVID A. HOLI,INGER.
INDIVIDUALISM, JAPANESE STYLE In the Realm of a Dying Emperor by Norma Field by JAMES FALLOWS.
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
745 BOYLSTON STREET.
CONTRIBUTORS.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE NOVEMBER ALMANAC.
FIRST ENCOUNTERS Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill by EDWARD S0REL AND NANCY CALDWELL SOREL.
THE PUZZLER by EMILY Cox AND HENRY RATHVON.
WORD HISTORIES by CRAIG M. CARVER.

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