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TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 276
TRACK 1
WHEELS OF FORTUNE
by
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, November 26, 2007
AMONG THE PANDAS
by James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly, December 2007
TRACK 2
THE NOBEL PEACE
PRIZE LECTURE
by Al Gore, As recorded in Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2007
WHERE WONDERS
AWAIT US by Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books,
December 20, 2007
SIR EDMUND HILLARY
by Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times, January 12, 2008
HIGH GROUND
by William Cullina, Horticulture, February/March 2008
TRACK 3
BUYING LENIN
(fiction) by Miroslav Penkov, The Southern Review, Autumn 2007
OLD MARX
(a poem) by Adam Zagajewski, The New Yorker, January 21, 2008
GALLOPING GHOSTS
by Diane Ackerman, Smithsonian, November 2007
EXTREME DINOSAURS
(an essay) by John Updike, National Geographic, December 2007
TRACK 4
SAILING TOWARD
PARADISE by
Matthew Power, The New York Times, December 23, 2007
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
FOR SALE by
Caroline Moorehead, The New York Review of Books, October 11, 2007
TRACK 5
STILL, DEAD,
SILENT
(an essay) by Shawna Lemay, Prairie Schooner, Fall 2007
RHAPSODY IN
BELUGA
by David Rothenberg, Orion, January/February 2008
TRACK 6
JUST BEFORE (a
poem)
by Jorie Graham, The New York Review of Books, December 20, 2007
THE JAP ROOM
(fiction)
by Pam Durban, Shenandoah, Fall 2007
TRACK 7
THE DAILY MIRACLE
by William Zinsser, The American Scholar, Winter 2008
HOW TO WRITE
STORIES…
by George Singleton, The Oxford American, Issue 59, 2007
THE INK FADES ON A
PROFESSION by Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times,
December 26, 2007
TRACK 8
MELINDA GATES GOES
PUBLIC
by Patricia Sellers, Fortune, January 21, 2008
WHAT IT MEANS TO
BE BEAUTIFUL
(an essay) by Yannick Murphy, The Antioch Review, Fall 2007
THE JOY OF SILLY
by John Schwartz, The New York Times, January 20, 2008