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Remembering 1998

Cover Story | with reports from Bob Jones IV, Edward E. Plowman, Mindy Belz, and Chris Stamper - Sometimes, it seemed, the most significant news story of 1998 was not the president and Monica Lewinsky, nor the home runs and strikes, nor even those wacky Iraqis. It was head transplants. In April, Robert White of Case Western Reserve University announced it would soon be possible to graft a human head onto another body. The operation, something like an organ transplant for overachievers, had already been

Remembering 1998: Religion in America

Cover Story | Winners: Almost anybody who went to church. Findings from several medical studies indicated that people who attend religious services and are serious about their faith tend to have better health than the population at large. They also live longer, according to researchers of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas. Their study found the average life expectancy of those who said they never attended church was 75, compared with 82 and 83, respectively, for those who

In this issue: "Year in Review 1998," Dec. 26, 1998

Reviews

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Books: The culture's lone Wolfe

Books |  The chronicler of radical chic and trophy wives captures the nineties in his new novel

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Technological constants

Culture |  The laws of economics, humanity, and Star Trek

Voices

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Mailbag

Repudiate it I received the same mailing that Joel Belz talked about in his column "Analyzing the salt" (Nov. 28). After reading enough of it to see that they…

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A little goes a long way

On the impeachment battle, some principle is better than none

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Winter nights

Lessons learned on a paper route last a lifetime

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Zeus or Christ

Tom Wolfe's bestseller ends in neither gaffe nor grace

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