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2000

Stories Published in this Year

Merry Chanukah | December 2000 (Volume: 51, Issue: 8)

THE HOLIDAY’S TRIUMPHANT RISE FROM AN OVERLOOKED AFTERTHOUGHT IS ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST SUCCESS STORIES.

Roundup In Quang Ngia | December 2000 (Volume: 51, Issue: 8)

SIX VIETNAM SOLDIERS GO OFF ON A VERY STRANGE ASSIGNMENT

Silver In The Back Yard | December 2000 (Volume: 51, Issue: 8)

A YANKEE SCHOOLGIRL FINDS HERSELF IN CIVIL-RIGHTS-ERA ALABAMA

THREE CENTS A BARREL

Why a 200-year-old decoration offers evidence in the controversy surrounding the Hiroshima bombing.

What Is A Wound? | December 2000 (Volume: 51, Issue: 8)

IN CHANGING TIMES, IT’S NOT ALWAYS CLEAR

JACKIE COOGAN REACHED THE PINNACLE OF SUCCESS AND STARDOM WHEN HE WAS FIVE. THEN, HE SET THE HOLLYWOOD PATTERN OF PAYING THE PRICE FOR EARLY FAME.

Clinton Observed | December 2000 (Volume: 51, Issue: 8)

Our foremost satiric artist bids farewell to a great subject—and selects four colleagues he believes were the departing President’s defining delineators

Jazz and America | December 2000 (Volume: 51, Issue: 8)

Geoffrey C. Ward, writer of a major new book and 19-hour documentary on the subject, discusses the joys and wonders of our native art form

A murderous disease was ravaging the south in 1914. Then one brave and determined doctor discovered the cure — and nobody believed him.

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