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What happened on July 19, 1998

BOOKS

  • Sequoia, By Leonard Nathan

  • Reading L.a.

  • Sense and Memory  By Phyllis Richardson, \o7 Phyllis Richardson is the author of "Portmanteau."\f7

  • Motherland  By John Ryle, \o7 John Ryle is a columnist on the Guardian in London and consultant to U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations in Africa. He is co-writing a book on the role of information in complex emergencies\f7

  • The Past, by Fyodor Tyutchev

  • Anti-This and Anti-That  By Edward N. Luttwak, \o7 Edward N. Luttwak is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and the author of the forthcoming book, "Turbo-Capitalism," which will be published by HarperCollins\f7

  • Living the Split  By Susie Linfield, \o7 Susie Linfield is acting director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program at New York University. She is a contributing writer to Book Review\f7

  • Africa For Kids By Susan Schilling, \o7 Susan Schilling lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and two children and works in the educational software industry. Her essay is provided exclusively to Book Review by the Five Owls, a bi-monthly magazine that encourages literacy and reading among young people. For a copy of the Five Owls, send $1 for postage and handling to the Five Owls, 2004 Sheridan Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55405\f7

  • Africa For Kids

  • The Sound of the Stars, by Stephen Watson

  • Westward Ho!  By Gregory H. Nobles, \o7 Gregory H. Nobles is a professor of history at Georgia Institute of Technology and the author of "American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters & Continental Conquest."\f7

  • Midsummer Reading For Kids

  • Southern California Rankings: FICTION 1. POINT OF ORIGIN...

  • Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds, \o7 Susan Salter Reynolds is an assistant editor of Book Review\f7

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  • When Is a Breakthrough Really News? By Karen Wright, Karen Wright, a science journalist, has written for Scientific American, Discover, Nature, Science and the New York Times Magazine. She is completing a novel about desert ecology and human procreation

  • Fighting the Centrifugal  By Richard Weinstein, Richard Weinstein is a professor of architecture and urban design at UCLA. He was part of the team that established the first neighborhood councils under Mayor John V. Lindsay in New York City in the early 1970s

  • Who's Standing Up for L.A.?  By Kevin Starr, Kevin Starr, a contributing editor to Opinion, is State Librarian of California and a member of the faculty at USC. The latest volume of his history of California is "The Dream Endures, California Enters the 1940s."

  • To Really Bail Out Russia, West Must Deny the Loans By Dmitri Glinski and Peter Reddaway, Peter Reddaway is a professor of political science at George Washington University; Dmitri Glinski is a research scholar there. They are co-authors of "Yeltsinism: The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms," due out early next year

  • Holding the Line in Kosovo By Jane E. Holl, Jane E. Holl, executive director of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, served on the National Security Council as a director of European affairs under Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, from 1991-1994

  • A Victim of Racist Realpolitik By Peter Eng, Peter Eng, a former Associated Press reporter, has been covering Cambodia since the 1980s

  • The Fight to Control the Cinema By George F. Custen, George F. Custen, a professor of film at the City University of New York, is author of "Twentieth Century's Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck & the Culture of Hollywood."

  • The Law of the River May Meet Its Match By Tom Wolf, Tom Wolf, who teaches ecology at Colorado College, is the author of "Ice Crusaders," to be released this year

  • Massoumeh Ebtekar  By Robin Wright, Robin Wright, author of "In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade," covers global issues for The Times

  • Challenges of 'E-Commerce'

  • The Virtue of Simplicity

  • UC Regents' Many Faces

  • Old-Fashioned Steps to Make Schools the Salt of the Town  By Carol Jago, Carol Jago teaches English at Santa Monica High School and directs the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA

  • Rules of the Road for Biological Research  By Carol Tavris, Carol Tavris is a social psychologist who writes frequently on behavioral research

  • Tolerating Intolerance in American Politics  By Peter Skerry, Peter Skerry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, teaches political science at Claremont McKenna College

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