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April 1986 Issue - 21 Articles- Contributors, pp. 4-7
- Letters to the Editor, pp. 8-13
Reports & Comment
- Why We Throw Food Away
William Ratilje
, pp. 14-15 - Discovery of the Month
Jack Beatty
, pp. 16-17 - Pakistan: The Amazon of Peshawar
John Keegan
, pp. 18-19 - Sudan:A Microcosm of Africa's Ills
Robert D. Kaplan
, pp. 20-23 - Physics: The Gospel of String
Robert P. Crease and Charles C. Mann
, pp. 24-31 - American Folktales
John Harris
, pp. 32-34 - Four Ways to Walk a Dog
Michael Lenehan
, pp. 35-91 - From the Rapido: La Spezia Genova
John Frederick Nims
, pp. 92-99 - Do We Need to Be No. 1?
David M. Gordon
, pp. 100-108 - My Mother's Clothes
Richard McCann
, pp. 109-113 The School of Beauty and Shame
- Feather Bag, Stick Bag
Kim R. Stafford
, pp. 114-116 - Ballistics
Guy Billout
, pp. 117-118 - Music: Last of a Breed
Francis Davis
, pp. 119-121 Books
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The Man Who Found the Wagons (Review) Benjamin DeMott
, pp. 122-124 Franklin of Philadelphia, by Esmond Wright
- Franklin of Philadelphia by Esmond Wright
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Poor Mom (Review) Barbara Ehrenreich
, pp. 125-129 Women and Children Last, by Ruth Sidel
- Women and Children Last by Ruth Sidel
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Brief Reviews (8 Reviews) Phoebe-Lou Adams
, pp. 130-132 The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by Charles Richard Johnson
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Charles Richard Johnson
- Kipling's India by Thomas Pinney and Rudyard Kipling
- Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness
- The Liberation of One by Romuald Spasowski
- Break In by Dick Francis
- The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy by Cathy Porter and Sophia Tolstoy
- Thinking Back by C. Vann Woodward
- Winter by Donald Hall and Clifton C. Olds
- Acrostic No. 9
Dorothy Osborne
, pp. 133-135 - The Puzzler
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
, pp. 136-138 - Cover illustration
George Booth
