The issue of 2006-05-15, published 2006-05-08
Title IX Babies
The Lendl girls' golf game.
by David Owen
Q. Is the success of the Lendl girls due to Title IX or to the fact that their father was a tennis superstar? Why?
Me Media
A generational obsession becomes a boom.
by John Cassidy
Q. What's driving the success of sites like Facebook and MySpace? Voyeurism? Exhibitionism? Advertising? What are the privacy risks of participating?
The issue of 2006-05-01, published 2006-04-24
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
How I became a Tuscan butcher.
by BILL BUFORD
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060501fa_fact
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/060501on_onlineonly01
Q. Buford suspects most people don't want to know where their meat comes from. Yet, there's lots of attention paid to how animals are raised, free-range, organic feed, etc. Is this illogical or hypocritical?
Vessels
A daughter stillborn
by Daniel Rayburn
Q. Rayburn's grief is palpable in his recollections. Does this sort of writing help with lesser tragic events?
