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Smithsonian September 2006 Paul Raffaele	Sleeping with Cannibals This intrepid reporter gets up close and personal with New Guinea natives who say they still eat their fellow tribesmen.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Liotta & Owen	Sense and Symbolism: Europe Takes On Human Security A European culture with dubious historical reputation for cosmopolitanism is being thrust upon the global stage at the very moment when its geopolitical concepts are poised on the precipice of desuetude.
Reason September 2006 Michael J. Totten	The Kurds Go Their Own Way Can freedom flower in Iraqi Kurdistan?
Reason September 2006 Tim Cavanaugh	Happy 40th Birthday, Star Trek Why Captain Kirk's story is the story of America: Among other things, there's a story of a tough, almost millennial faith that endures no matter how absurdly bad things may look: Even in its darkest decade of cancellation.
Reason September 2006 Cheryl Miller	Shopping for Me, But Not for Thee With the "not buying it" premise fizzling out, Judith Levine's Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping devolves into a paint-by-numbers screed on the evils of capitalism: It's destroying democracy, paving over the rainforest, polluting the air, fraying the social fabric, etc.
Financial Advisor August 2006 Evan Simonoff	Editor's Note - No Place Is Paradise Quality of life is important in the UK, but it does not take a front seat over work as it does in France. The country still has social issues to work out, but no country is perfect. Attitudes toward America are, as always, complex, particularly among a people who are incredibly polite.
Financial Advisor August 2006 Richard B. Wagner	Retirement Is The Wrong Word The financial planning industry, and perhaps our culture as a whole, needs a better word to describe people of a certain age -- and retired is not it! Here are some suggestions.
ifeminists July 26, 2006 Carey Roberts	Women Good, Men Bad? It's about time that we probe an assumption that has insidiously worked its way into our culture -- the notion that women are the guardians of goodness and grace, while all those male neanderthals are emissaries from the dark side.
Scientific American August 2006 Michael Shermer	Folk Science Before the rise of modern science we had only our folk intuitions to guide us. But folk science gets it wrong because we evolved in a radically different environment.
Smithsonian August 2006 Blaine Harden	Cowboys and Realtors The mythical American West lives on - even as the wealthy, the leisured and the retired buy into Big Sky Country. An essay.
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