Articles from the New Yorker
The Archive - 1998

August 17, 1998
ANNALS OF BEHAVIOR
Do Parents Matter?
For decades, psychologists have looked to some combination
of nature and nurture to explain how children turn out.
But a radical new theory -- developed by a grandmother
from surburban New Jersey -- may change everything.

July 6, 1998
A CRITIC AT LARGE
The Spin Myth
Are our spin meisters just spinning one another?

March 9, 1998
Dept. of Puffery

February 2, 1998
ANNALS OF MEDICINE
The Pima Paradox
Can we learn how to lose weight from
one of the most obese people in the world?

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