CURRENT ISSUE
October 2000
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Features
Libba Cotten's Guitar
Left-handed, she taught herself to play, wrote the folk classic "Freight Train" and sang into her 90s
The Return of the Phage
As deadly bacteria increasingly resist antibiotics, researchers try to improve a World War I era weapon
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Book Reviews: Faster
Faster by James Gleick