What's on the minds of America's youth today?

More than 30 years ago, young people across the country staged sit-ins for civil rights, got up and protested against a misguided, undeclared war, and actually gave a damn if a president lied to them. Although a lot has changed since then, there are still racial divides, and America is once again mired in a largely controversial war. Back in the 1060s and 70s, a similar climate motivated great numbers of young people to act, organized, and take to the streets in defiance. Today it seems as if younger Americans are content to watch their MTV, fiddle with their game players, follow the love lives of Brad, Jen, Jessica, and Paris, and assume the hard work is being done for them by others. What has changed? Is it simply that we do not have the motivating factors such as a draft of or Kent State to bring us together, to anger us? What is going on inside the minds of American youth today ?

The 2005 Vanity Fair Essay Contest
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In 1,500 words or fewer, explain what is on the minds of America's youth. The grand prize is $15,000 a week at a writer's retreat in Tuscany, and a Montblanck Meisterstuck 149 fountain pen. Second prize is $5,000 and a Montblanc Boheme fountain pen. Third prize and a Montblanc StarWalker Fine Liner. Allentrries must be received no later than September 30, 2005. For details, rules, and conditions, please visit http://www.vanityfair.com/

The 2005 Vanity Fair Essay Contest
Sponsored by Montblanc

In 1,500 words or fewer, explain what is on the minds of America's youth.

The grand prize is $15,000 a week at a writer's retreat in Tuscany, and a Montblanck Meisterstuck 149 fountain pen. Second prize is $5,000 and a Montblanc Boheme fountain pen. Third prize and a Montblanc StarWalker Fine Liner. Allentrries must be received no later than September 30, 2005. For details, rules, and conditions, please visit http://www.vanityfair.com/

Don't Eat Before Reading This

Anthony Bourdain Don't Eat Before Reading This

Reading the New Yorker, August 22, 2005

Calvin Trillin, The culinary approach to Spanish. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050905fa_fact

Judith Thurman, Night Kitchens - Japan's artisanal-tofu masters.

John Seabrook, Renaissance Pears - Growing a museum of fruit in Umbria. A profile of Isabella Dalla Ragione, who's field is archeologia arborea, and is tracking down fruit that once graced the Renaissance tables of the Medici. Keeping an orchard was a principle of scientific humanism - nature and technology. Each house had a pomari, an orchard of about 10 trees.

Atchafalaya

Atchafalaya
by John McPhee
Issue of 1987-02-23
Posted 2005-09-12
This week in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker reprints an excerpt from this piece, from 1987, on the Army Corps of Engineers efforts to tame the waters of Louisiana. Here is the full text of the article.http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?050912fr_archive01

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In the Companyof Cheerful Ladies: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith $22.95

Cheerful Baby
Brainy Baby
Ian and Sylvia, Early Morning Rain

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